Maintenance mode

As soon as you create your Drupal Gardens website, it is accessible to your site's visitors. Any and all changes you make to your website are visible online unless you configure your website to enter maintenance mode.

Best practices are to keep your website offline until you're ready to launch your website. Drupal's maintenance mode exists for when you need to keep your website private and offline for non-authorized visitors before it is ready to launch, or later when you add new features or make other changes.

Configuring maintenance mode

In maintenance mode, the site maintainer (the user who created the site) and any other users with the "Administrator" user role will be able to access and modify your site as usual. All other site visitors will see the message you enter on the maintenance mode page.

1. Go to Configuration > Maintenance mode.

   

2. Select the Put site into maintenance mode check box.
3. Edit the Maintenance mode message that Drupal Gardens displays to site visitors while your site is offline.
4. Click Save configuration.

   

While in maintenance mode, the site maintainer (the user who created the site) and any other users with the "Administrator" user role and/or the "Use site in maintenance mode" permission (see below) will be able to access and modify your site as usual.

To put your site back online, deselect the Put site into maintenance mode check box on the Maintenance mode page, and then click Save configuration.

Accessing your website in maintenance mode

• Log in during Maintenance mode - Go to your site's login page (http://example.com/user - substitute your site's address for "example.com"). You will be presented with a page containing one or more "Login or register" links that take you to the site login dialog.

  

  

• Site maintainer and administrators can always log in - The site maintainer (the person who registered and first logged in to a Drupal Gardens site) and any other users with the "Administrator" user role can access and modify your site as usual while it is in Maintenance mode.

• Give other users access to your site - If you want your collaborators to be able to access and modify your site while it is in maintenance mode without giving them full access of the Administrator role:

  1. Create a new user role (i.e. site tester, themer, author, etc.)
  2. Assign permissions to the role as needed and include "Use site in maintenance mode" permission.
  3. Add the new role to the tester users it by editing their profile page.

  See User roles and permissions for more information.