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How to get rid of "Site down for maintenance."

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 1:38 am
by dunover2
Hi
I appempted to upgrade from 1.6.4 "Moindou" today with out success. So restore the previos version, but now the home page gives this message. "Site down for maintenance." how do I get rid of that?

thanks!
Cori

Re: How to get rid of "Site down for maintenance."

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 1:53 am
by calguy1000
Clear the cache.

But if the site is still "down for maintenance" I bet your restore from backup wasn't complete.

Re: How to get rid of "Site down for maintenance."

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 8:39 am
by Rolf
What went wrong during the upgrade?

Re: How to get rid of "Site down for maintenance."

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 11:04 am
by staartmees
did you follow the procedures as described on http://docs.cmsmadesimple.org/upgrading/old-versions ?

Re: How to get rid of "Site down for maintenance."

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 12:09 pm
by chandra
You can try to delete the file named SITEDOWN inside folder /tmp/cache manually (via ftp).

Re: How to get rid of "Site down for maintenance."

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 5:54 pm
by dunover2
Thanks for the help, deleling the file in cache work and was able to do a minor upgrade so the pho version works better!
Cori