Hello

Supose i want to work on my uploaded website tonight, what can i do quickly for make all page redirect to a single page saying "temporarily unavailable. We come back soon"

in another forum had said me to use global.asax

It's possible?

Any Sugestion ?

Thanks,
Max

Ya use the global.asax file, specifically the OnSessionStart event.

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Thanks, but can you be more explicit ?

I wrote this code

It worked, but only first time.

After I go to "unavailable.aspx" page if i write ".../otherpage.aspx" i will go to "otherpage.aspx"

How can i prevent this?

Thanks,
Max

Any word on this? I'm trying to accomplish the same thing but it was never resolved.

Well, here is the thing, the Session_Start event will ONLY fire one time per every session that starts, so that is why you are able to go to any other page after that.

The BeginRequest event of the global.asax file is raised EVERY time a request is made to the application so you might have some luck there.

Lastly, you could use URL rewriting so that ANY incoming URL was redirected to your system maintance page.

hth.

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By BeginRequest I assume you mean Application_BeginRequest? I have already tried these approaches there in my global.asax, and none of them work:

Response.Redirect("page.aspx")
Server.Transfer("page.aspx")
HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect("page.aspx")
HttpContext.Current.Server.Transfer("page.aspx")

To clarify, when I say "none of these work", I mean that there is no error occurring, but the coded action is NOT taking place. It is as if I never added the code. So I went ahead and tried them in almost every SUB available to global.asax, and again, nothing. No error and no redirect, not even the first time (with or without active sessions).

I'm not familiar with the term "URL rewriting"....

Maybe my global.asax isn't firing at all? Is there any reason this would be or possibility this could happen? Maybe something in my web.config?

No. You Global.asax will always raise its events (as far as i know) and there is no way to turn them off. Read this about the Application Begin Request: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms227673(vs.80).aspx

URL Rewriting is employed by plenty of sights, although you may not have noticed it. For example: www.foo.com/product.aspx?id=3&cat=4 now with URL Rewriting a user may be able to type this www.foo.com/Widgets/Super-Widget/ into their address bar and actually be directed to the page product.aspx with the id and category variables still in tact.

Its transparent to the user and it makes your sites much more SEO friendly, but I digress. You achieve this by way of Regular Expressions and, it is possible, you could write an expression that would filter all requests to your website to one page.

This app is the most straight forward to get working:
http://urlrewriter.net/ and its free.

And you have this:
http://www.helicontech.com/download.htm (ISAPI Rewrite)

The latter of the 2 has 2 versions. The unpaid version can only be used within one domain, whereas the paid version can be configured to handle multiple domians. Also, because it is an ISAPI filter you have a bit of a preformance increase over URLRewriter but it is also a tad bit more complex to work with.

hth.

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Trying to get ANYTHING in global.asax to happen isn't working for me. Forget about redirection, I can't even set or increment a value for a session variable.

1) I initialize session variable and set it to 0 in Application_Start
2) Put code to increment it in both Session_Start and Application_BeginRequest
3) Code to output it onto an aspx page
4) Variable never has a value, not even 0

If I put code in the aspx page to set or increment the variable, it works fine. global.asax is not working.

Ideas anyone?

Is your directory set up as an application in IIS?

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