How to Put Drupal 7 in Maintenance Mode
When you’re updating your Drupal site, you’ll need to put it into Maintenance Mode so that no problems occur for you or visitors.
Here’s how to turn on Maintenance Mode in Drupal 7:
Step 1
- Go to “Configuration” then “Maintenance mode”.
Step 2
- Make sure the “Put site into maintenance mode” box is checked
- Enter the message you want visitors to see during the interruption.
- Click “Save configuration”.
Step 3
- You’ll now see a message saying “The configuration options have been saved”.
Step 4
- You will be able to browse around your site without problems but visitors who aren’t logged in will see the message above.
- If you log yourself and can’t get back in, just add /?q=user after your site address and you’ll be back to the user login page.
Halleluja!
Great ! Short quick and clear. Thumbs up !
wish everything was this simple 😉
Nice ! Short and informative !
Step 4 before Step 3? xD
I can’t read .. the numbering was not okay. ;p
I’m just kidding 🙂 Thanks alot!
Ooops, thanks SaudF. Good spot.
does maintenance mode affect google indexing ?
Yes, it does. Google won’t be able to index any of your sub pages.
How to Solve this problem?
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