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How to show site offline message during Drupal Site's MySQL database maintenance

I need to put my Drupal Site in offline/maintenance mode whence my SQL server is undergoing maintenance. I cant change the settings for offline mode in Drupal database because MYSQL would be inaccessible.

Any other method to do it?

Thanks in advance!

Solution

  • You could use htaccess (for Apache, or the equivalent in IIS Manager) to redirect to a non-drupal page during database maintenance, otherwise it will indeed show a database error even in "offline" mode, preferably a "302" type of redirect.