When the maintenance mode is enabled, only users with the "use the site in maintenance mode" permission are able to access your site to perform maintenance; all other visitors see the maintenance mode message configured in the setting page. Authorized users can log in directly via the user login ...

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Cant get the site out of maintence mode

I am using Drupal 7. I just started creating a new drupal site. Instead of downloading all of the necessary contributed modules, I copied them from a different test site I had made recently. There ...
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Drupal 7: “Maintenance mode” message when the site is NOT in maintenance (Yes, I´ve cleared cache, 4 times now)

I get the "Operating in maintenance mode. Go online." message and the D7 site is not in maintenance mode. The message doesn´t appears all the time, and sometimes it goes away when I refresh the page. ...
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How to apply css to the maintenance page?

I need to work on some serious update to my D7 website. So I put my site in maintenance mode. I'm able to personalize the maintenance page by creating maintenance-page.tpl.php in my theme's template ...
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Hello, how to translate only the interface back to english?

My site default language is Hebrew (RTL), the problem is that it's all the site, and i want my sites admin-interface to be in English (American). how could i re-translate it to English? Thanks !
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Pitfalls when updating a site without entering maintenance mode?

Assuming there are no module updates that require doing a database update, if it's just an update to a newer minor release of Drupal core, as well as of contrib and custom modules, what potential ...
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How do I add a menu router that works even in the maintenance mode?

when a Drupal site is in maintenance mode (not due to a technical fault), users without permission cannot access any page other than /user. Is there any special hook to define a specific menu router ...
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Maintenance mode doesn't work on front page without www prefix

I have my site in sub directory and it works both with and without www prefix but when I place it in maintenance mode I've noticed it doesn't work for the front page without www prefix until you ...
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How can I prevent users from adding content without putting the site into full maintenance mode?

We are planning a scheduled update of our site. There is no reason for people to not be able to see the site as anonymous users, or even browse their account if they want to log in. How can I simply ...
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Log in problem in maintenance mode

I have a maintenance site problem. I can't go to the login page. I tested in my localhost in maintenance and I could log in on /user. I copied file system and database online but here I can't access ...
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Can I use Rules in hook_update_N()?

I'm using Commerce, and in a hook_update_N() I'm creating a new product. I have a vanilla create product display rule that creates a new display node when a product's created. This doesn't work in ...
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maintenance mode after error occurs while running update

Error occurs While I'm running update for my drupal site. And it stuck in maintenance mode. I can't log in to it using /user/login. I changed $update_free_access = TRUE in settings.php and run ...
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Browse only mode for Drupal 6

While we do some server maintenance, how might be prohibit our users from editing or adding content but not put the site in offline mode. That is, we'd like to have content browseable but temporarily ...
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Maintenance page is not loading anything in the head tag

I have a template based on Basic theme. I have created the maintenance-page--offline.tpl.php, and maintenance-page.tpl.php templates in my template folder, using a similar markup as in the ...
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Recoverable fatal error on nodes after leaving Maintenence Mode

our site was in maintenance mode for several days, and when we came out of maintenance mode a bunch (we don't know how many) of our nodes display this error: Recoverable fatal error: Object of ...
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What happens when a site goes in maintenance mode while a user is editing an node content?

Let's imagine a user is editing a node content. In the mean time, a Drupal administrator puts the site in maintenance mode. Does the user have a chance to save his work (assuming it does not have ...
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How to avoid the D7 “maintenance” screen on database errors?

As I'm working on a D7 site, I'll occasionally hit a database-related bug in my code. When this happens, I get thrown to a version of my site's maintenance page; the error information doesn't show up ...
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Disable editing of post during update

I would like to disable user access to the administration during updates, such as bugfixes and additions of new content-types etc. I'm not completly sure on how to achive this. What would be the best ...
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Should Drupal be set on maintenance mode before using drush sql-dump?

When performing drush sql-dump, should Drupal be set in maintenance mode or will this command makes sure a coherent dump will be generated even if users are busy using Drupal? I can't find ...
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Take all sites in a multisite environment offline at the same time

Is there an easy way to take all sites in a multisite environment offline at the same time, in just one step? I really don't want to log in to each one and do it one at a time when I do something ...
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Multisite - Put one alias in maintenance mode

Hello fellow Drupalers, We have one installation (let's call it example.com) with two domains (development.xpto.com and example.com) serving as alias (defined in sites.php) to the main site folder. ...
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Theme the login page for Maintenance mode

I've created my theme as subtheme of ZEN, and I have created my maintenance page template, which works when I enable the maintenance page. If I try to visit example.com/user, the login page is shown ...
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Display content during site maintenance

Is it possible to display a static version of a Drupal 6 website while it's in maintenance mode? Could something similar to Boost help?
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Disabling access to admin pages during maintenance

I need to do some maintenance on a website that is updated by a number of contributors, what is the easiest way for me to disable access to the admin part of the website while I'm working on it?
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Site in offline mode, any way to debug how this happened?

I came in this morning to find my companies site in offline mode. I personally checked with the only other site admin, and none of other users have the ability to turn off the site. I was using the ...
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Is it possible to set up preferrential IPs when in maintainance mode?

I've previously worked on Prestashop and there I had the choice to set my site in offline/maintance mode and then edit one ore more IP addresses in order other people to view the sites but not the ...
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Site offline notification

How to turn off the notification about the site being offline, when in maintenance mode? Operating in maintenance mode. Go online.
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Maintenance Page -> Show a specific block

How to make a block available on the maintenance page (e.g. jQuery Countdown) ? Is it about setting right permissions?
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How theming off-line page?

I read API and put files theme folder. maintenance-page.tpl.php works well, but maintenance-page--offline.tpl.php don't work. How theming off-line page ?
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Theming the maintenance mode in Drupal 7

I guess the title says it all. What would be the best practice for theming the maintenance mode in Drupal 7?
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Site turned to maintenance mode without changing any settings

I have a client who's site maintenance came up without anyone touching it. What would cause something like this? I have theories that it's the backup module. Would that be possible? I just went ...
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Site stuck in maintenance mode

I have put a site in maintenance mode. Before I could visit the administration pages as user #1 (which was the user account I was already using before to put the site in maintenance mode), I had to ...