How to go about an offline site

You should be able to go to example.com/user/login (or example.com?q=user/login if you are not using clean URLs).

You can then log as an admin user.

Last I checked there was an unrelated bug that caused the page to not display the login fields. So, try using just "user" instead of "user/login". That should work.

It's still not working.

Just to clarify: "/user" works fine, displays a login and accepts it if I am admin, and the site is offline.

"/user/login" still does not work.

I tested that with the latest CVS.

I doubt that user/login _can_ be fixed the way user.module is right now. I do remember the author of site offline changing from user/login to user during form API update though can not remember the exact cause.

If user works then there is no problem, right? Maybe we should change the relevant tab to user and that's it?

I suggested the same workaround to Dries: changing "user/login" to "user", but he had some reservation on this (seeing user info or user listing or something).

However, I do not see an issue, since the default maintenance themed page has no links to either (actually has no links at all!), so it may not be an issue?

Dries, would you reconsider this? I can patch it (exactly 5 characters removed!)

I disagree with the assessment above that /user is working. As indicated by the last poster, /user gives the site offline page. Offline sites are at this point inaccessible.

You are right, the reason it works for me is that I have this line in includes/menu.inc, function _menu_site_is_offline() to be:

if (drupal_get_normal_path($_GET['q']) != 'user') {

Instead of:

if (drupal_get_normal_path($_GET['q']) != 'user/login') {

Dries, please apply this as an official patch.

Committed to HEAD.

This patch works but I run into another related problem.

When the site is offline and /user is selected and a non-admin user is loggin in, the site continues to respond offline. Selecting /user path generates /user/nonadminuser with the offline page displayed. I am unable to log the non-admin user off or, for that matter, log in as admin.

Perhaps a note in the explanation under "administer/settings/site maintenance" that explains how to go about logging back in if the site admin inadvertantly logs out would be a good addition.

http://drupalsite.com/?q=user should let you in.

Thank you very much.....

I saved the maintance page to see how it would look I was unable to login to the admistration page after stuck to view the maintanence page.

But using http://www.mysite.com/?q=user

Let me login again, Thanks a lot saved me some hair as it had me pulling my hair out. :-)

The people posting with the issue appear to have it resolved, and it is covered in the handbooks at http://drupal.org/node/56995.

thanks man works for me