A way to make the forum go into maintenance mode?

luceos

It's part of the application in https://github.com/flarum/core/blob/master/src/Foundation/Application.php. The key offline is added in the settings table of the database.

jordanjay29

luceos Hmm, makes me wonder if creating a settings.offline entry would be enough to trigger this.

webeindustry He wants a production site to be inaccessible for the maintenance period. Unrelated to Flarum updating, but merely working on setup on his own.

(Assumed your gender, sorry.)

Freddy

Davis Absolutely not! Extremely few users find anything negative or bad about "Maintaince mode", most people associate it with "Things are being fixed". It's only a problem to know-it-all devs.

Shut down NGINX, go into read-only-mode, go into maintaince or simply do anything you feel comfortable doing without jepordizing data corruption. The advice given here is pure BS and based on personal preference, not how the real world works.

As a side note; I want to use this extremely "bad practise", not to update my board, but simply because i dont want my brand new Flarum forum to be live yet, it takes a lot of effort and work to create a proper community, it's not something that's ready for launch at install.

Davis

Freddy Could pretty easily password protect nginx https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-password-authentication-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-14-04

Also, things wouldn't need to "be fixed" if they weren't broken in the first place. You're thinking of how it was back in the day. Times have changed. How would you feel if google or twitter turned on "maintenance mode"?

webeindustry

Freddy As a side note; I want to use this extremely "bad practise", not to update my board, but simply because i dont want my brand new Flarum forum to be live yet, it takes a lot of effort and work to create a proper community, it's not something that's ready for launch at install.

You want to use a maintenance-mode for a non-production site? I must be reading that wrong, because there doesn't seem to be much logic in that.

Freddy

Davis I'm aware of my options outside Flarum, thanks tho. My point was simply to back up the OP in the fact that this is a needed feature, for some, not so-close-minded.

Google and Twitter is in maintaince mode quite often. But generally, i agree, when you have a multi-billion dollar website and thousands of employees, you can spend the same effort into giving the user absolutely no downtime from their content, but as long as you stay as microscopic as you have the past years, then you don't need to think about it for a split second.

webeindustry Your correct, you didn't read it right.

webeindustry

Freddy

Not sure. Davis is correct.

Besides in the moment updates, best practice is performing work off the live site. It makes zero sense to enter any kind of down-time, maintenance-mode or not, on a production site.

This isn't about data corruption, it's about not knowing better approaches.

Google & twitter are running multiple datacenters worth of servers. It just doesn't apply here.

Freddy

webeindustry Exactly, it's about not knowing, hence, as my original post states, this is a preference, not a rule to die for as a wanna-be DevOp.

What makes zero sense to you, might make complete sense to someone else. All i see in this thread, is some extremely close minded opinions stuck in their ways, refusing to see or accept that others don't do things exactly the way their bible says it should.

webeindustry

Freddy

Then I trust you would hold that same reasoning for yourself, and wish you the best!

jordanjay29

Freddy Give me a second and I may have a SQL solution for you if you're comfortable mucking with your database.

Freddy

jordanjay29 I noticed the comments above regarding the Laravel setting during upgrades, if you have something by hearth then that would be great, a clever SQL solution shouldn't be to hard to turn into a plugin so we can get a permanent solution for this as well.

jordanjay29

Freddy It was simpler than SQL (yay). Mind you, there's no pretty maintenance page.

In config.php, on a newline before ); add

'offline' => true,

Mine looks like this:

  array (
      'api' => 'api',
      'admin' = 'admin',
   ),
   'offline' => true,
);

Remove offline or set it to false to remove maintenance mode.

jordanjay29

Freddy shouldn't be to hard to turn into a plugin so we can get a permanent solution for this as well.

flarum/core459

Might be better as a PR.

Freddy

jordanjay29 Sweet, thank you!

A maintaince page is a maintaince page, as long as it does it's job then looks really doesn't matter. Don't be so superficial ? ?

jordanjay29

Freddy Btw, you can access yourforum.com/admin so long as you were logged into an admin account.

Freddy

jordanjay29 I am aware, thank you ?

Side note: Maintaince mode would be quite useless if not :/

Ralkage

jordanjay29

What if you logged out and have no way to log-in? ?

mina

jordanjay29 This doesn't work anymore as of 0.1.0-beta.8. Confirmed by several users (see here: flarum/core459): maintenance mode is correctly enabled, but admin access is totally disabled.

It was working correctly with 0.1.0-beta.7.

jordanjay29

Ralkage Exactly. Then your only solution would be to edit a file, which is an acceptable but not preferable fallback.

0E800

Padding to make the post not so obvious........................Flarum is awesome and so flexible. This can be circumvented by using Issyrocks filter extension and filtering out color=white on white themes and color=black on Dark themes.
I'm not sure if this was mentioned yet. Granted it's not a pro-dev solution and I've been drinking but...

Couldn't you?:

A: use the Landing Page extension and use a custom css that hides the login header and only displays a under construction type singe page?

B: use issyrocks user extension and do a send all to every member stating down time?

C: create a easy to execute script that changes your nginx or apache server to point to a 404 page or under construction page ?

D: a combination of above?
Side note:
Just saying .. #dropdeadFrederick your posts put a sour taste in my mouth just reading them. Your social graces need developing. It's not personal, it's just my opinion. Your that guy that gets thrown off the boat in movies, and people clap.
What a nerd bully.

Ralkage

The extension would need to be able to display not only a maintenance message globally, but it should allow users to still log in but not be able to view or post on the forum. Similar to Vbulletin basically to where select groups can still browse the forum during maintenance mode. This needs to be handled on an API level as well to return a maintenance message as a response.

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