How to change my maintenance page?

Question

As the title explains, I want to make a custom maintenance page, different from the default one.

For that I've read this tutorial: Theming the Drupal maintenance page.

I copied the file /module/system/maintenance-page.tpl.php to my theme folder, changed it a little bit, and I enabled the $conf['maintenance_theme'] = 'themeName'; line in settings.php; but I can't see the changes

What else do I need to do?

Answer 1

Hope this will help you,

Before site goes offline for maintenance mode, check the user who has permission to access the site during maintenance mode via admin/people/permissions and check for this permission Use the site in maintenance mode. Default access will be given to the admin.

In Drupal 7, to create a custom maintenance page we have to override the default maintenance template file

We can do it by the following steps:

• Copy maintenance-page.tpl.php from modules/system/
• Paste it in active theme folder inside templates folder
  ie., sites/all/themes/your_theme/templates/
• Make the changes in new maintenance template file.
• Clear the Drupal cache - configuration > performance > clear all caches

Note:

• If you want how to Put Drupal 7 in Maintenance Mode, you can go through this link

• To bring the site back online

  • The user who has permission to access the site during maintenance mode can
    able to login using login page
  • Go to admin/config/development/maintenance and uncheck Put site into maintenance mode and save it.

Answer 2

double check that you have done the changes

Drupal API

And copied the file into your themefolder?

There is also the option of using maintenance-page--offline.tpl.php when the db is off.

Answer 3

If clearing your cache doesn't work, you can explicitly set the template in the preprocess.

     template_preprocess_maintenance_page(&$variables) {
      if (isset($variables['db_is_active']) && !$variables['db_is_active']) {
    // Dead databases will show error messages so supplying this template will
    // allow themers to override the page and the content completely.
        $variables['theme_hook_suggestion'] = 'maintenance_page__offline';
      }
      else {
    // Default maintenance template
        $variables['theme_hook_suggestion'] = 'maintenance_page';
      }
    }