title: ASP.NET 2.0 - How to use app_offline.htm
body: <p>I've read about the <code>app_offline.htm</code> file which can be placed within the root of a .NET 2.0 application which will in essence shut down the application and disable any other pages from being requested.</p>
  
  <p>I've placed the file in the root, and my site still loads.  I went into default documents in IIS and set it to <code>app_offline.htm</code> and the site still loads (this might have been a caching issue though)</p>
  
  <p>Anyway, has anyone run into issues using this? Am I doing something wrong?</p>