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How do I disable maintenance mode in Magento?

Sean Bailey
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Question

 

My Magento website displays an error saying maintenance mode is enabled. How do I disable maintenance mode?

 

Answer

 

If the file.maintenance.flag exists in the var folder of the Magento installation maintenance mode is enabled.

 

To disable maintenance mode, you can move the file aside to disable maintenance mode, the next command assumes you are in the document root of the Magento installation:

 

mv var/.maintenance.flag var/.maintenance.flag.backup

 

After you confirm that this resolves the issue you can remove the var/.maintenance.flag.backup file.

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