Coldfusion 503 service unavailable page

Question

Recently one of my websites had ColdFusion stop responding. Instead of any pages, our users got 503 Server Error response.

What I want to be able to do is feed an "Offline" page to my users, so they're not staring at a blank screen.

I'm using Windows Server 2003, IIS 6, ColdFusion 9.

I see a lot of solutions for ASP.net, but I'm not entirely sure there's a "built-in" solution for my case.

Answer 1

I haven't used IIS 6 in awhile, but you should be able to change your error handlers in IIS to display a custom page when it sees a 503 error.

Answer 2

You can customize the 503 error in IIS for that site. You can make it an HTML page, so you can make it look good, and be more user friendly than just an error.

That is what I recommend.