1.9.0.1 Maintenance Mode

Question

Could someone please advise how to put 1.9.0.1 into Maintenance Mode? Or is this version not supported?? I found some instructions, however I don't have the option for Maintenance Mode for Ver 1.9.0.1 under System>Configuration>General

Answer 1

Magento goes to maintenance mode when you create a file named maintenance.flag to your Magento home directory. This is how Magento handles it:

$maintenanceFile = 'maintenance.flag';

if (file_exists($maintenanceFile)) {
    include_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/errors/503.php';
    exit;
}

Answer 2

You can create an empty file with name maintenance.flag and just upload to the magento root directory

Answer 3

I followed this tutorial http://magentoexplorer.com/how-to-show-and-customize-magento-maintenance-mode-page to enable maintenance mode page in Magento, you need to create and upload maintenance.flag file to Magento root folder, however there are some more step for a good Maintenance mode like.

Step 1: Add exception during maintenance (allow specific IP to visit your site during maintenance). In index.php, add these lines

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; 
$allowed = array('x.x.x.x','y.y.y.y');

Step 2: Edit maintenance mode page Edit maintenance mode page in /errors/default/503.phtml Remove wrap in /errors/default/page.phtml Hope this helps.