Magento 2 - Custom Maintenance Page Error - Unable to proceed: the maintenance mode is enabled

Question

Steps

• Go into the pub/errors
• Create a copy of the local.xml.sample and rename it as local.xml
• Edit the with custom name. Ex – mytheme

local.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<skin>mytheme</skin>
</config

Create a copy of the 'default' folder and rename it with skin name. Ex – mytheme

Locate the 503.phtml inside the newly created folder and add custom code. Add the styles inside css/styles.css and relevant images under images folder.

Enable maintenance mode

php bin/magento maintenance:enable

Error

Exception #0 (Exception): Unable to proceed: the maintenance mode is enabled.

• Is this the correct approach to display custom maintenance page. Magento ver. 2.2.0 ?

Answer 1

You must have your site in developer mode, switch it to production mode and you will see the 503.phtml page displayed.

php bin/magento deploy:mode:set production