Site stopped but want to show the Message in html page

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Hi Friends,

I have one problem related to the IIS 7 or 7.5
Due to some reason i have to stop my site for a day.more then thoused users using this site.to let them know there is some maintanace activity has been going on so that i want to show them html page that display "Site is under construction"

Note-:I have stopped my site.

please guid and suggest me
how to configure or any other setting on the root directory.

Thanks

Posted 19-May-12 4:14am

deepakaitr12345

Updated 19-May-12 4:15am

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Not Active · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-19T04:50:00

Stopping the application won't work, the users will just a not found error. You should set the default document for the site appropriately, i.e, remove all others except your default html

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/203/default-documents/[^]

A "better" way, however, would be to have a testing/staging site to update then migrate to production. The production site would be offline for minutes not an entire day.