Read-only mode for use during maintenance

[huobazi]

I would like to suggest a readonly settings for maintenance or when your site moving from IDC 1 to IDC 2

example for moving workflow:

www.yourname.com ------> 10.10.10.1 （old server) readonly the forum on old server moving the forum and data to the new server change DNS(A record) www.yourname.com ------> 100.100.100.1 (new server) disable readony settings on the new server readonly the old server 48 hours+ then shutdown it

ref: http://discuss.flarum.org/d/945-read-only-mode-for-use-during-maintenance

[johnhearfield]

Or a check which redirects to a maintenance page which automatically refreshes every 60 seconds or something?

[jordanjay29]

Encountered this in a recent Flarum support request. The hack is simple, add an offline key to config.php, but Flarum can do this through a service provider like Flagrow does here.

I'm thinking this may require a few things to be viable.

1. A maintenance page designed. Currently is sends a 503 with a custom error message. This works for the admin, but normal users may be confused.
2. An admin login page if logged out when /admin/ is accessed.
3. A toggle in the admin panel (Basics?) to enter maintenance/offline mode.

I'm wondering if this is something where a PR would be accepted.

[ghost]

As an addition to @jordanjay29 request, that the board should be locked for visitors during maintenance but open for admins as the OP suggests, (Perhaps in read only mode?). Giving admins access over the board and administration area despite "maintenance" mode.

[martignoni]

Any news on this?

[luceos]

Adding a key offline to your config.php and setting the value of it to true will disable the frontpage but allows you to go into the admin area.

I'm not sure why this is still open, except perhaps to make the feature more visible or to allow setting this from the admin panel..

[martignoni]

Adding a key offline to your config.php and setting the value of it to true will disable the frontpage but allows you to go into the admin area.

Yes I did this, but my question was indeed about these features: https://github.com/flarum/core/issues/459#issuecomment-290326837, a not so nerdy maintenance page with a nice GUI to enable it 😄

[broxinagil]

I as well would appreciate a maintenance mode which is available in other Forums in General. An admin may want to reorganize discussions while normal users don't should visit the Forum during this time. It should be possible to set a permission "Allow Acces during maintenance" on Groups, Maybe as well with the possibility to choose between no acces, read and read/write mode.

[martignoni]

@broxinagil What you describe still exists: you just have to add offline: true to your config.php file, as already stated above.

IMHO what is needed is a friendly GUI to do it, and a likewise friendly customizable maintenance page for clients during maintenance mode (see above).

[matteocontrini]

@martignoni unless I'm doing something wrong, that option disables the whole site (admin area included) for everyone (administrators included)

[martignoni]

If you're logged in as an admin before you set it, you can access admin area anyway after setting it.

[broxinagil]

@martignoni I know about this setting, but this only leaves the admin-area open (but only if I was logged in before) and I'm not able to access the discussions. As well the output on "offline: true" is poor, without any Information about the reason, therefore looks non-professional to the end-user. Even I can not allow mods to help reorganizing in this mode.

[matteocontrini]

@martignoni I just tried again and I always get the maintenance message 🤔

[broxinagil]

I can confirm what @matteocontrini says. Admin-Area is disabled as well. Maybe something changed in core in Beta-8.1, as I remember this setting was working before for admin-area.

[martignoni]

Yes, I confirm. It was working as of 0.1.0-beta.7. So it is a regression IMHO. Last time I used it was for migrating 😉. I updated this thread: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/4102-a-way-to-make-the-forum-go-into-maintenance-mode/29.

[luceos]

@matteocontrini could you please create a new issue that references this one? This issue is about a remake of the maintenance page not about it not working. Thank you.

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[martignoni]

AFAIK this is still here and should be fixed.

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[martignoni]

IMHO, this should be fixed.

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[martignoni]

It's a pity we don't have a GUI to toggle maintenance mode in Flarum. Any news here?

cc/ @jordanjay29 @franzliedke

[w-4]

As an addition to @jordanjay29 request, that the board should be locked for visitors during maintenance but open for admins as the OP suggests, (Perhaps in read only mode?). Giving admins access over the board and administration area despite "maintenance" mode.

There is a simple way to do it if you're using nginx. Here's how I implemented it:

set $maintenance off;

if ($cookie_bypass_maintenance_mode) {
   set $maintenance off;
}

location / {
   if ($maintenance = on) {
       error_page 503 /maintenance.html;
       return 503;
    }
}

location = /maintenance.html {
     internal;
}

Turning maintenance mode on is done by setting the $maintenance variable to on. Then set for yourself a cookie "bypass_maintenance_mode" (just as an example) and you can access the full site while other visitors will get the maintenance page. You could probably also implement the read-only mode in a similar way with some tweaking.

[martignoni]

Yes, we all know how to enable maintenance mode by editing a file :-) (please read the thread).

This is about having a GUI option to do this simple operation in Flarum.

[matteocontrini]

Maintenance mode can be achived through this extension, but this issue is actually about a read-only mode.

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