Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / September 2004

Hello,

I would like to display a standard .htm page informing users that the website
is undergoing some maintenance / publishing is in progress.

I have already created this simple .htm file but I don't know what and how to
trigger when starting to publish changes from development / testing environment
to live / production environment.

Since its an .htm file, it will only get displayed if IIS is still running on
the Web Server (so if IIS is down, then I guess they'll get served that MS IE
standard error page).

How can I prohibit users from hitting any page on my website while I am
publishing changes and this user-friendly message to appear for them to come
back in 10 mins or something (I usually publish database changes compared to
code)?

What is the best practice and how to go about it ?

Thanks,

Sameer.