i have set the 'site offline' feature on a site i am working on and i can't seem to get into it.

I have come home and on my iBook i can't acces the site at all (unlike back in the office).

any ideas - i have tried going to /admin, etc (i was pretty certain i was logged in as admin- the only user so far), and i just get the offline message.

any ideas, or do i juts have to hope i can get back into the site when i boot up in the morning in the office?

thx.

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pwolanin’s picture

try going to:

www.example.com/user

I've had no problem accessing an offline 4.7beta site with this.

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rivena’s picture

Fantastic!

FYI, this works with 4.7 as well.

Anisa.

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abhilasha bhardwaj’s picture

i am unable to access this link

nancydru’s picture

You do realize that "www.example.com" is replaced with your site's URL?

Nancy Dru (formerly Nancy W. until I got married to Drupal)

abhilasha bhardwaj’s picture

ok , thanku i have solved this problem now i have another problem , i want to add a module regarding birthday module because i have installed drupal 6.2 and there is no module available. what should i do???????

vm’s picture

If the module you seek is not ready fro Drupal 6.x you have 4 options

1) port it yourself
2) pay someone to port it for you
3) wait until its ported by the developer
4) use Drupal 5.x where you have access to the modules you seek

nancydru’s picture

According to the Birthdays module issue queue, it looks like it should be available soon.

Option 5: Check the issue queue and put a +1 for the upgrade. I dare say there are very few modules that don't have a 6.x upgrade issue already posted for them.

Nancy Dru (formerly Nancy W. until I got married to Drupal)

abhilasha bhardwaj’s picture

hiiiiii,
i want to create my website, i have created my first page, now i want to create further new pages for my website , also i want to change the content of left side bar and right side bar........
further more i want to give a name to my website, till now i am using it as a local host......
please help me!!!!!!

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jims cubicle’s picture

I know you posted this in 2006 and your advice helped me today in 2009! Thank you very much for saving my day!

bryanc’s picture

with 4.7.1 i had this problem and only got back in with example.com/q?=user

heine’s picture

That's probably example.com?q=user

The above is a failsafe way to login again, because it works whether clean URLs are possible or not. example.com/user only works when clean urls are possible.

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drlingo’s picture

I recently took my site offline to change servers. I now want to change the site online using the information supplied here I was directed to the login page when I tried to login I get site offline. I tried changing the user password in the database but nothing changed. I noticed errors on the login page could this have something to do with the problem?
# user warning: Unknown column 'data' in 'field list' query: SELECT data, created, headers, expire FROM cache WHERE cid = 'menu:0:en' in /home/httpd/vhosts/ispeak.net/httpdocs/translation-newsfeed/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.
# user warning: Unknown column 'cid' in 'where clause' query: UPDATE cache SET data = 'a:4:{s:10:\"path index\";a:186:{s:13:\"admin/filters\";s:1:\"7\";s:18:\"admin/filters/list\";i:-2;s:17:\"admin/filters/add\";i:-3;s:20:\"admin/filters/delete\";i:-4;s:11:\"filter/tips\";s:1:\"3\";s:10:\"admin/node\";s:1:\"8\";s:19:\"admin/node/overview\";i:-7;s:17:\"admin/node/search\";i:-8;s:19:\"admin/settings/node\";s:2:\"21\";s:28:\"admin/settings/content-types\";s:2:\"22\";s:4:\"node\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"node/add\";s:1:\"9\";s:7:\"rss.xml\";i:-13;s:12:\"system/files\";i:-14;s:5:\"admin\";s:1:\"5\";s:12:\"admin/themes\";s:2:\"10\";s:19:\"admin/themes/select\";i:-17;s:21:\"admin/themes/settings\";i:-18;s:28:\"admin/themes/settings/glo in /home/httpd/vhosts/ispeak.net/httpdocs/translation-newsfeed/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.
# user warning: Unknown column 'data' in 'field list' query: SELECT data, created, headers, expire FROM cache WHERE cid = 'archive:calendar:13-12-2006' in /home/httpd/vhosts/ispeak.net/httpdocs/translation-newsfeed/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.
# user warning: Unknown column 'cid' in 'where clause' query: UPDATE cache SET data = '\n

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I suspect there is a problem with the above file could anyone shed some light here.

linuxuser’s picture

I have a fresh installation of drupal-4.7.4.tar.gz and set the site to "offline". Now I don't find a way to enter a password. I read http://drupal.org/node/56995 too.

example.com?q=user where user is the only user with adminrights, doesn't show an entry for the password. It would take me a few minutes to install again, but in this case I would like to know, what is wrong. Thanks!

Ceran’s picture

This "failsafe" doesn't seem to work in version 6. I enabled normal caching, took the site offline, and now I can't get back in.

AaronCollier’s picture

It does work in 6.x. I've used it myself. Did you try the thing about clearing the cookies?

nancydru’s picture

This is a new 4.7.4 install. I stupidly took it offline.

I have tried example.com/user/1, example.com/user/2, example.com/?q=user, and example.com/?q=admin (my first user is "admin").

I cannot get in with any of those.

HELP!!!!!!

ideviate’s picture

clean the cookies or try to enter with another browser.
example.com/?q=user this is the only correct query among them.
also you may try this
http://drupal.org/search/node/site+maintenance

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nancydru’s picture

I did delete all the site cookies and eventually got in. I can't believe there were so many cookies - are they really needed? If I had happened on another site with this many cookies, I'd add it to my banned sites list.

My site don't need no steekin' cookies!

vm’s picture

to be a dynamic site, it does need cookies.

so many of them ? you would have to be more verbose in what you mean by so many ?
did you check date of creation ? were they from more than one test installation ?
now that cookies are cleared how many cookies is your site generating ?

nancydru’s picture

Well, at the moment, with only a short period of time on that site today, I count at least 20 cookies. It doesn't tell when they were created, but they were all accessed and modified today.

The new site I spent most of the day on has many more than that (I found at least 44).

The ThemeBot site I visited briefly even put 5 cookies on my machine.

mawais81’s picture

my web site is www.truthdenied.com
during upgrading i set it off how to get it back
reply me as soon as possible
my email address is
mawais8@gmail.com

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satishmunigala’s picture

I HAS CHANGED LOCATION IN FILE SYSTEM THEN ON WARDS MY DRUPAL SITE WAS SHOWING SITEOFFLINE ,AFTER I HAD CHANGED IN SITES>DEFAULT>SETTING.PHP> IN THAT USERNAME:PASSWORD@LOCALHOST\DATABASENAME(I HAD CHANGED PASSWORD) BUT STILL IT WAS SHOWING SITE OFFLINE