Just spent a couple of hours trying to debug this on. If your sites offline (maintenance mode) then you'll get a 503 error from apache!! Put the site back online and this module works like a champ. Can you add my tip to the main page so others wont spend hours trying to debug.

WORKAROUND: Use some code in your .htaccess to take your site offline rather than using the maintenance mode:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-disable-site-for-maintenance-with-50...

Thanks for the module :) works great!
R

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grandcat’s picture

grandcat commented
Priority: Critical » Normal
domosapiens’s picture

domosapiens commented

Thanks man!

Your post saved me a lot of work searching where the 503 error came from.

likewhoa’s picture

likewhoa commented

this is the case with nginx (engine x httpd) also.

grandcat’s picture

grandcat commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

This issue can't be fixed. Just go online of you want to upload images.

maverick14’s picture

maverick14 commented

Good post ThaboGoodDogs!

That's absolutely true grandcat, but still I think you should display this on the project's homepage.

Greetz

grandcat’s picture

grandcat commented

I don't think that this issue is so important to be shown on the project page because the maintenance mode is thought for updates only.

maverick14’s picture

maverick14 commented

Hello Grandcat,

I ran into this problem while building a new website, that I - for the time being untill release - kept in maintenance modus. So, I can imagine there are more cases when developers can run into this problem.

It's up to you to decide how important this is.

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xpersonas commented

Well I didn't spend hours, but I did spend an hour thinking the module was broke. Thank you ThaboGoodDogs for this post. There's not enough exclamation points and capital letters in the world to express how thankful I am that this didn't turn into an all night issue.

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wansinn commented

will there be an issue fix for this in the next release? i often run my sites in offline mode to develop and as it seems other developrs too.

cheers, oli

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wansinn commented

oh i read there won't be a fix :(