So, the site I\'m working on is using urlrewriting in coordination with aspnet_isapi.dll (everything is mapped to it). I put up my app_offline.htm file, and all the text shows,
It's because if the webserver sees an App_Offline.htm file, it serves that file for every request in the site - even images. You have to serve images from another site. Or you can try something like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme