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How do I Lock a site while I need to do maintenance on it? Then how would I unlock it?

Jay

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raffi’s picture

raffi commented

goto admin/settings/ and in the site maintenance part of the page enable the offline mode. and the same way you can unlock it... but when you logout you will not be able view the site.

You must keep the admin session on.

alexanderpas’s picture

alexanderpas commented

you CAN logout and login by going to user/

this means you can logout, and log back in without problems, no need to keep your session.

it might be handy to keep a maintance login link to user/ in your offline message

less == more

drupalninja99’s picture

drupalninja99 commented

I don't want to get locked out of my website.

hf’s picture

hf commented

You can log back in with
yoursite.com/?q=user

it works.

blogpaul’s picture

blogpaul commented

yoursite.com/?q=user did not work for me on geny.com ???

I changed the offline message and logged out assuming there would be a place to log back in...theres not and your suggested addy does not exist...I have clean urls so I also tried taking out the /?q=

Any other suggestions?

brianestadt’s picture

brianestadt commented

I had the same fear when I went offline for the first time yesterday, but it's not a big deal. If you log out (I kept my site down from the time I left the office to when I arrived home and was able to log back in), just do as described above to log back in. Easy as pie.