How To Get Your Drupal Site Out of Maintenance Mode

After getting hit with some serious forum spam I put my one Drupal site into maintenance and forgot about it for a couple of weeks. When I came back to update it to the newest Drupal version I found that I had been logged out and no longer got a menu with it in maintenance. I knew that in WordPress I could add /wp-admin/ to the URL to get to a login screen but I didn’t know the equivalent for Drupal.

To log into your “under maintenance” Drupal site simply append /?q=user to your address

http://www.yoursite.com/?q=user

From there you can log in and take your site out of maintenance mode, or apply whatever tweaks you need to perform.


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6 Responses to “How To Get Your Drupal Site Out of Maintenance Mode”

  1. Marius says:

    Thanks a lot for this post !

  2. Novus says:

    Thank you. Worked great.

  3. niles says:

    phew I was panicking

  4. Claire says:

    Thank you, thank you, thank you! I was in complete panick mode. I’m still really new at this.

  5. Omar MOUSSA says:

    If you are using clean url just add user without ?q=
    so you write
    http://www.yoursite.com/user

  6. Ratnesh says:

    Thanks for the solution

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