At a time when my ColdFusion service is unavailable (which is rare), I need a “pretty” default HTML page that can be displayed. A particular status error when disabling ColdFUsion is an error 503.
Based on this question , it seems that it would be difficult to override the default 503 error message display. I'm not an ASP / .NET developer, so I'm not sure if the same circumstances will affect me, because in any case I do not have an active application pool for my site.
I tried adding a custom page and linking it to error 503 using "Run URL on this site." This removed the previous error page, but did not display the HTML page (I made sure that loading the page itself really worked). I tried the option "Insert content from a static file", and this led to an error (I tried to track the specifics, but could not find it in the event viewer or in the IIS logs).
So, I have two questions:
- There is no .Net application pool, is it possible to have your own error page to handle 503 errors due to the service (I assume that other application platforms besides ColdFusion may have similar behavior)
- What is the preferred error handling method - Executing URLs including a static file or doing a 302 redirect?