Allow anonymous access between times

20 Sep 2006 12:20 PM

cc900630

Hi Is there any setting in Windows 2K3 or IIS 6 that can allow my
public website only to be accessed between certain times/days.

Rather than scedule the service teh stop is there anyway to serve a
custom error and deny access to the pages.
Thanks.

20 Sep 2006 4:58 PM

Miha Pihler [MVP]

Hi,

When I need such feature, I usually do it on a network firewall. See if your
firewall supports such feature.

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP - Windows Security

<cc900***@ntu.ac.uk> wrote in message

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> Hi Is there any setting in Windows 2K3 or IIS 6 that can allow my
> public website only to be accessed between certain times/days.
>
> Rather than scedule the service teh stop is there anyway to serve a
> custom error and deny access to the pages.
> Thanks.
>

21 Sep 2006 3:18 AM

Bernard Cheah [MVP]

You still need scheduler to helps you.
Rather than stopping the services, why not have a dummy site?
so what you will do at certain time period is:
a) stop the production website
b) start the notification website (predefined)

then reverse the order when it is time to open up the production website...

or if you are comfortable with coding, you always can check the time at the
web page itself.

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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.iis.net/
http://www.iis-resources.com/
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bernard/

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news:1158754842.680617.136900@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Hi Is there any setting in Windows 2K3 or IIS 6 that can allow my
> public website only to be accessed between certain times/days.
>
> Rather than scedule the service teh stop is there anyway to serve a
> custom error and deny access to the pages.
> Thanks.
>

28 Sep 2006 11:56 AM

cc900630

Thanks for the replies.
I think the firewall is best but Id like some custom page for the user.
I know ISA can do this scheduling but i dont think cisco does.

> a) stop the production website
> b) start the notification website (predefined)
> then reverse the order when it is time to open up the production website...

This sounds like what I want, I can make two websiets in IIS but how
would I script this stop/start action ? Would I need to script it then
schedule the vbscript?

> or if you are comfortable with coding, you always can check the time at the
> web page itself.

I am comforabkle with the code, but would just rather have a higher
level managed solution that is independant of the source code.

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> You still need scheduler to helps you.
> Rather than stopping the services, why not have a dummy site?
> so what you will do at certain time period is:

>
> --
> Regards,
> Bernard Cheah
> http://www.iis.net/
> http://www.iis-resources.com/
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/bernard/
>
>
> <cc900***@ntu.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:1158754842.680617.136900@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi Is there any setting in Windows 2K3 or IIS 6 that can allow my
> > public website only to be accessed between certain times/days.
> >
> > Rather than scedule the service teh stop is there anyway to serve a
> > custom error and deny access to the pages.
> > Thanks.
> >