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Drupal allows a restrict set of users to access the site when maintenance tasks run: the maintenance mode.

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Site stuck on maintenance mode only for a single page [closed]

On a live, multilingual (fr/en) client site, I've just update Drupal 7 to its latest version (along with a few modules). Everything went fine, except that, even though the maintenance mode has been ...
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Cannot login to my Drupal site [duplicate]

A while back I made a site for our Operettic society in Holland, after a while I transferred the maintenance to another person who came just recently back at me with a problem. The site is stuck in ...
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Error message when deleting folders/files on Maintenance mode

I turn the site in maintenance mode for update Drupal Core from 7.30 to 7.32. I follow the step on Drupal docmentation to delete all folders and files, beside "site" folder(on step 5). However, I got ...
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Should a site be in maintenance mode when running the Drush Up command?

I'm not asking if I can update my website with Drush. I'm not asking if Drush can make it in maintenance mode. My question is ... if I'm using the command drush up to update my Drupal core or a ...
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How to put a site in maintenance mode by non-admin

Is there a module (or other way) to give permission to non-admin-users to put the site offline (and only that permission)?
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How to automatically put your site into maintenance mode if at least a critical security update is available?

I think I'm craving for this functionality. What I want is, if after a CRON run, Drupal detects that such a security update is available, the site would be taken down for maintenance mode to avoid ...
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Can I Run custom callback in site maitenance mode

In drupal site maintenance mode all custom menu callback is not working. it redirect into site maintenance page. But user/login is working. I need to create menu like user/login. please help me.
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Anonymous view while developing without quit maintenance mode

I have a live website with 200 active users per hour, I put the site in maintenance mode for make some changes. You know the admin view is pretty different than the anonymous view of my website or ...
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Safe to delete cache_form table while site is in maintenance mode?

My site has a very large database of 100MB, most of this is in a table called cache_form. I've tried clearing the cache. When I try and run the cron I just get a white screen. My site is in ...
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Drupal 7: Protect entire site in a maintaince mode-esque fashion

Looking for a way to lock down the site like maintenance mode, but without having to use maintenance mode. I don't want to use maintenance mode because I want to have that feature available for it's ...
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Undefined variable: _SESSION in template.php

I use this code (not mine, I do not know how to code) to disable Maintenance mode message on front-page while developing a site, it's really annoying when it's flashing all the time in the middle of ...
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How do I prevent cached "Maintenance Mode" messages to anonymous users?

Sometimes pages show up as under Maintenance Mode for anonymous users while working fine for logged in users (the only logged in users are administrators, and I believe I set it so admins always get ...
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How to add a user/login Link to the Maintenance Mode page?

I have my site in Maintenance Mode. I know I can get to my login page by going to http://example.com/login . My client wants a login link on the Maintenance Mode page (when in this mode). Before I ...
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How to theme maintenance page for omega subtheme?

Drupal's "Theming the Drupal maintenance page" gives a good overview for theming the maintenance page for 'normal' themes: Copy modules/system/maintenance-page.tpl.php to your theme's templates ...
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Stuck in site maintanance mode

I've been trying to update my drupal installation with the security patch from 7.20 to 7.26 using a patch file. Problem is I cannot get out of maintenance mode. I've tried everything indicated in ...
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How do I turn off maintenance mode?

Does anyone know how to turn off maintenance mode? I tried accessing http://www.example.com/?q=user/login, but that gives me a blank page. I tried executing this SQL query, but it didn't affect any ...
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Adding Information to Maintenance mode message

I'm trying to setup my maintenance mode message so that it will display a twitter feed and a facebook like box to my sites facebook page. I want to do this so I have a place to send information to the ...
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Why is my website often put in maintenance mode by itself?

My website in maintenance mode by itself. But other sites is work well, only this site has this problem. Some people encountered this kind of situation? Thank for help..
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Cannot login to turn off maintenance mode after 7.24

I am new to Drupal, and although I managed to understand most of its principles, it seems I broke my site when trying to update it to the latest 7.24 release. As instructed in UPDATE.txt, I entered ...
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Show a maintenance page while moving the site [closed]

I am going to move the finished drupal site from the sub-directory to root, because the files are quite large, it takes a while to do so, I want to put a html file there to show 'site maintenance in ...
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Using maintenance.css to maintenance-page.tpl.php

I followed the link below so I can customize Maintenance Mode. https://drupal.org/node/195435 How can I customize Maintenance Mode css? I tried to link the style sheet: maintenance.css to ...
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How can I set a custom error page for database fatal error uncaught exception [duplicate]

Every once in a while when I get a fatal PDO error, Drupal outputs the page without the theming and outputs the error message onto the screen. On my production site, it just outputs the page without ...
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Send a regular reminder (or do other normally cron-dependent tasks) while in maintenance mode

I recently had an episode where I put a site into maintenance mode to perform a security upgrade and forgot to go live again afterwards, resulting in almost a day of downtime before I caught the error....
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Does Google crawl Drupal sites in maintenance mode?

I'm using Aegir to clone copies of my site under a subdomain name ie test.mydomain.com. These copies are in maintenance mode to keep away spammers and prying eyes. I then use these copies to carry ...
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How to change my maintenance page?

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/...
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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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"Maintenance mode" message is shown when the site isn't in maintenance

I get the "Operating in maintenance mode. Go online." message and the Drupal 7 site isn't in maintenance mode. The message doesn't appears all the time; sometimes it goes away when I refresh ...
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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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Allow Anonymous user to Subscribe while site under maintenance mode

The title says it all. I have customized the Maintenance mode page, to Coming soon!! how i want to enable the visitors of the website to Subscribe So they'll will be notified when the website is ...
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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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How to send a email message to specific user role when the site goes to the maintenance mode in drupal 7?

I would like to use emails to communicate with users. So i really want to send a email message for all users(or just a number of users with specific role) when the site goes to the maintenance mode ...
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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 to 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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Why can't I update my Drupal modules and themes? [closed]

Suddenly I found my self in a big issue: I just can't upadate my Drupal modules and themes. When I run the update script via the GUI, the download phase passes correctley (or it seems to be). But ...
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How to enable Google analytics while site is in maintenance mode?

I want to know how many users visit my site that is currently in maintenance mode. I have installed the google analytics module, but it doesn't add google tracking codes to the maintenance page, so ...
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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 the 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 page....
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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 the ...
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How do I avoid the 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 I put my site on maintenance mode before using "drush sql-dump"?

When performing drush sql-dump, should I set the site 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

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. We wanted to put one of ...
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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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