Put your site in maintenance mode by uploading a file.
This is a pretty simple module that checks for the presence of a file called 'maintenance.lock' in either the Drupal root directory or a site-specific directory (sites/mysite.com, for instance) and sets the site to maintenance mode if the file is present. This is very helpful for deployment scripts, such as Capistrano and the like, in which you don't always have ready access to the database.
Also, whatever text you include in your 'maintenance.lock' file will be used as the message to show users while your site is offline (you can just have an empty file too, in which case the message will revert to the default Drupal message).
Instructions for use can be found in the README.txt file that comes with the module.
Project Information
- Maintenance status: Actively maintained
- Development status: Under active development
- Module categories: Administration, Developer, Utility
- Reported installs: 44 sites currently report using this module. View usage statistics.
- Automated tests: Enabled
- Last modified: January 4, 2012
