Magento – stuck in maintenance mode – unable to log into admin panel

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While preforming a backup, I got hung up and had to refresh page (after an hour) "Put the site in maintenance mode" was checked. Now my admin log in is redirecting to the site itself. I deleted maintenance.flag through ftp but I'm still unable to log into my admin panel. I added some "allow IP code" to my index.php file but again, no go. Any other suggestions?

Best Answer

Look in your Magento root folder for a file called maintenance.flag and rename or delete it. You should then be out of maintenace mode

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Magento – 1.9.0.1 Maintenance Mode

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;
}

Magento – Magento 1.9.0.1 Backup and Captcha

Answer 1. I just tried doing the backup and restore feature from the Magento Admin Panel. Magento is putting the store into maintenance mode using the maintenance.flag method. This involves creating a blank file in the sites root directory called "maintenance.flag" once the backup or restore is complete this file will need to be deleted.

Answer 2. In the 1.9 RWD Dev Guide they say that RWD was not implemented for captcha, I'm not sure why.

It has been disabled by the use of a blank captcha.xml file in the following directery: /app/design/frontend/rwd/default/layout

If you delete this file it will revert to the one in base/default theme. I can't see a reason why leaving captcha on would cause any problems.

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