how to theme maintenance page?

add a custom maintenance-page.tpl.php to your theme

see the one in garland for example

Get that maintenance-page.tpl.php into your theme then look inside your "settings.php" file. There will be notes on maintenance themes.

The way the new theming system is handled, makes this necessary. A nice bonus though is that if your database crashes, you can also add "maintenance-page-offline.tpl.php" to show a friendly page with your branding intact.

⎋ joon park

change in the includes\theme.maintenance.inc (line 46):
$theme = variable_get('maintenance_theme', 'minnelli');

to
$theme = variable_get('maintenance_theme', 'YOUR_THEME');

do not forget to put your changed maintenance-page.tpl.php file in the root folder of your theme

For the love of god.... I cant get this to work after I upgraded... Working with theme "marvin".

I copied the template.tpl.php to chameleon directory

then I change settings. I have tried both (line 185)

 $conf = 'maintenance_theme' => 'marvin',

and

 $conf = ['maintenance_theme'] => 'marvin',

and

'maintenance_theme' => 'marvin',

None if this worked so I went to theme.maintance.inc and changed on line 46

    $theme = variable_get('maintenance_theme', 'marvin');

whatever I do, when site is off line the viewer gets:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_DOUBLE_ARROW in /var/www/dzidzo.dk/public_html/sites/default/settings.php on line 185

PLS: Any help would be much appreciated.
Regards

Make sure you have a maintenance-page.tpl.php file in your theme folder. Then edit your sites/default/settings.php file:

...
 $conf = array /* Removed the hash sign */
...
 'maintenance_theme' => 'yourThemeName',  /* Removed the hash sign */
...
 ); /* Removed the hash sign, line 213 or whereabouts */
...

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Hi there,

I've had to look into this for a project i'm working on and here's what i've found.

Drupal core lacks a way to select which theme is to be used for the maintenance page (i.e some way of setting the variable 'maintenance_theme' through the admin interface). To set this variable without modifying settings.php one simply runs the following query:

INSERT INTO variable (name, value) VALUES ('maintenance_theme', 's:7:"mytheme";');

You need to replace the "mytheme" with the name of your theme (leaving the double quotes there), and replace the 7 with the number of letters in the name of your theme. E.g for a theme called blahblah it would be 's:8:"blahblah";'.

The above query does the same thing as adding the following to settings.php:

$conf = array(
  'maintenance_theme' => 'mytheme',
);

Another thing I came across is the maintenance theme doesn't show the color changes made using the color module. E.g if you do make customizations to the colors of the garland theme your maintenance page will still show up as the default blue. Workaround is to put the following into the theme's template.php:

/**
 * Override maintenance page variables.
 */
function phptemplate_preprocess_maintenance_page(&$vars) {
  // Hook into color.module
  if (function_exists('_color_page_alter')) {
    _color_page_alter($vars);
  }
}

I've had to use function_exists() instead of module_exists() because the system reports color.module as NOT existing in maintenance mode even though the functions are available.

First I would like to thank you all... I looked the same solution. I tried things whats you said would help. When I could not get to work... Then I read some in settings.php .

There is now need to hack core. I made this mistake, when I started with Drupal, but now I will be smarter with other systems too :)

Just remove some # before these lines and its working well :)

$conf = array(
'theme_default' => 'minelli', //--- you can set up new default theme even for install site :) //---
'maintenance_theme' => 'minelli', //--- minelli replaced with mytheme name//---
); //--- This must be there too :) //---

www.web3.ee
Under construction, but will be my best so far :)

I am new to Drupal, so I am probably making a mistake. I am trying to change the Theme of my Drupal 6 maintenance page so that it matched the theme (mytheme) that I am using for my site (Theming the Drupal 6 maintenance page - http://drupal.org/node/195435).

I tried to followed the instructions shown in http://drupal.org/node/195435. Here are the problems that I had:

1. Got message that sites/default/settings.php was password protected so that I could not make changes to this file. So I made changes to the sites/default/default.settings.php. However, when I went to upload the modified file onto my server, I received a message indicating that sites/default/ was locked and thus would not accept this modified file. So I guess I don't know how to hack into this, which I am uncomfortable doing anyhow.

2. Am I to save the new file maintenance-page.tpl.php in theme/mytheme or write over the file located in modules/system?

3. I could not find any directions as to how to modify modules/system/maintenance.css. I assume that I should take my style.css (in theme/mytheme), rename it maintenance.css then write over the file located in modules/system. Is this correct?

However, since I could not perform 1 above, I am still using the default ("minnelli") maintenance page.

Any assistance is much appreciated! Thanks!