IIS Redirect & Status

[ITGURU]

Is it possible within IIS when have a redirection check to see if the redirected site is online or not before redirecting, and then display the appropriate page?

 

To clarify:

 

- a user visits http://www.domain.com and goes to IIS.

- Typically IIS with redirection set would go straight to http://www.domain2.com - If this website is down a 'page cannot be displayed' is shown.

- If the redirected website is down, to show the local hosted website instead.

 

Thanks.

[ReadTheNetwork]

Are these internal sites? If so then yes, you can set a default 404 redirect if the site doesn't exist (or if it's down).

[ITGURU]

Are these internal sites? If so then yes, you can set a default 404 redirect if the site doesn't exist (or if it's down).

 

The main website is hosted externally, but the website for if the main one is offline would be hosted on the server. Currently I have IIS ticked to re-direct to the new URL whether or not the destination site is online.

[ReadTheNetwork]

What firewall do you use? This sounds like a firewall setup rather than IIS as you're looking externally then internally.