Maintenance Mode disabled after saving other settings

[Adrek]

Today I ran to small problem.

I installed fresh SMF 2.0.2, added Polish language and new theme (modified Inferno by DS). After that I enabled Maintenance Mode and while later changed some options in Cookies and Sessions. I was surprised that someone (spammer ) actually posted something on my site, because I thought that site is disabled. So I checked settings and another surprise - Maintenance Mode is not active


Then I made this tests:
Go to: Administration Center » Server Settings » General

Enable Maintenance Mode

Now go to: Administration Center » Server Settings » Database and Paths
Save settings (don't change anything)

Go to: Administration Center » Server Settings » General
Maintenance Mode is disabled.


Lets do it again:
Go to: Administration Center » Server Settings » General

Enable Maintenance Mode

Now go to: Administration Center » Server Settings » Cookies and Sessions
Save settings (don't change anything)

Go to: Administration Center » Server Settings » General
Maintenance Mode is disabled.

Wasn't sure if this is something for bugs board, so now it's here. If this is SMF bug please move this thread to proper board:)

[MrPhil]

Just to be sure, after you Enable maintenance mode, have you checked to confirm that it is, in fact, enabled? In Settings.php, you should see $maintenance = 1; (or maybe 2), and only the Admin can get in on 1 (and not even that on 2). Are you seeing $maintenance set back to 0 without your explicitly doing that?

I suppose it's possible that SMF could be automatically clearing maintenance mode to 0 after certain settings-related operations, so that admins don't forget to clear it manually, but that would not be a logical thing to do. More likely there's a bug in the code that reports to you whether it's in maintenance mode or not, or that it's failing to put the forum into that mode.

Your Settings.php isn't read-only, is it? (444 permissions, or similar) That would prevent it from being put into maintenance mode in the first place.

[Adrek]

Just to be sure, after you Enable maintenance mode, have you checked to confirm that it is, in fact, enabled? In Settings.php, you should see $maintenance = 1; (or maybe 2), and only the Admin can get in on 1 (and not even that on 2). Are you seeing $maintenance set back to 0 without your explicitly doing that?

Yes, it is enabled, in Settings.php I have $maintenance = 1;, and in theme is information about enabled maintenance mode

Your Settings.php isn't read-only, is it? (444 permissions, or similar) That would prevent it from being put into maintenance mode in the first place.

Settings.php has CHMOD 644

[MrPhil]

644 isn't necessarily writable by SMF (PHP), if PHP isn't running as "owner". If SMF was able to change $maintenance, then presumably 644 is OK (writable). Otherwise it might need to be 664 or even 666.

[Adrek]

yeah SMF changed setting in file, so file is writable

[ziycon]

Can you set the default theme in place and see if this issue occurs still, if it still occurs can you tell us what mods you have installed please?