*Help* Maintenance Mode

[_ang]

Oh boy. How do I get it off maintenance mode if I cannot access the Admin screen?

[maximus23]

Hi,

Edit the file settings.php to the root directory for your forum and modify :

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$maintenance = 0;  # Set to 1 to enable Maintenance Mode, 2 to make the forum untouchable. (you'll have to make it 0 again manually!)

[_ang]

It's already set to 1, I need to get it get off maintenance mode so I'm guessing I should change it to 0?

[Illori]

yes set it to 0 and your forum should be back to normal.

[_ang]

If that doesn't work? The error message I'm receiving is that it cannot connect to the SMF db.

[Illori]

did you change anything else in that file?

[_ang]

I didn't. I had put it in Maintenance Mode to do a backup. Then went to go prune and that's when it went kaboom.

So I'm restoring the backup now, but never having to do it before, I'm not sure how long it's suppose to take. The backup is almost a gig.

[Sleezy]

Did you do something to the forums URL?

[Illori]

Did you do something to the forums URL?

that has nothing to do with database connections and the op said they only changed the maintenance mode.

[Sleezy]

Well, this happened to me, and it was because I changed the forum URL (I was new to SMF at the time) So thats why I asked that...

[Illori]

changing the url to the forum would not cause this issue, unless you changed the url for the database server.

[Sleezy]

That's what I did, and I don't want to just talk about other problems on this user's thread.

[_ang]

I didn't change the forum URL, only set it to Maintenance mode, then did a backup and then went to go prune. That's it. I'm uploading the backup now and it's taking quite a while to upload.

[Illori]

if you had asked for further help before starting to upload the backup we might have been able to fix the issue. but too late for that attempt now.

[Sleezy]

Why you talking in blue?

[_ang]

It's just a pretty colour, that's all.

My apologies, one of the other moderators suggested restoring the backup. At this point, am I just stuck waiting until the restore is done? It's been going on for quite a while. I'm hoping that it hasn't bombed too. How will I know if the uploading the backup doesn't work?

[Illori]

if your forum does not seem to function correctly then it may not have been successful. although you are not telling us if you are restoring files or the database.

[_ang]

I used the backup wizard and followed it's directions to restore the db.

eta. The restore has been going for about an hour now. The progress bar on my browser hasn't changed at all.

[Sleezy]

What database hosting you using? Mysql, ect.

[Sleezy]

If your using Mysql, just do what you were doing, restore the database.