contingency plans for site on IIS

SeenGee

I have a small ecommerce site going live this week, it has been tested thoroughly but problems are of course possible despite this. I will be away this weekend and i need to be able to leave some plans behind so that a friend of mine can bring the site offline if such problems occur. If the site was hosted on a linux box with Apache then i was thinking that something like a .htaccess file, redirecting all traffic to a 'problems' page. However, the site is hosted on an NT box with IIS. As far as i can tell there is no real equivalent to .htaccess for IIS. I've seen some info on ISAPI but i'm not familiar with it. What i want is the capacity for a friend of mine to be able to FTP one page onto my server that will prevent all access to the site until any problems can be remedied. perhaps there is a php solution..?, any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

devinemke

use the header() function to redirect

SeenGee

have you got any ideas how i could implement this?, thanks.

devinemke

if ($problem)
{
header ('location: http://www.seengee.com/problem.php');
}

SeenGee

thanks but i've come up with a plan that will involve creating another folder on the root of the server, where the public_html folder is, this folder will contain an index.html that says "we are currently experiencing tech difficulties". if a problem occurs then i can get my friend to rename public_html to something else and rename the other folder public_html. I've spoken to my server people and they are happy with this, what i was thinking though is whether there is a function in php that allows a user to access folders and change their names, this way my friend can just login and change it there without having to ftp.