Magento

Thank you...... It is so freaking to see you cant undo the maintenance mode ..phewwwwww

ireckonUK - 16 March 2011 05:04 PM

I had the same problem.

SOLUTION:
delete the following file from your /magento/ installation

maintenance.flag

e.g. rm ./magento/maintenance.flag

Thank you
This helped me.
I believe that when I installed an extension, it only went part of the way or there was an error in it.
It got to the point of putting my site in maintenance mode but didn’t bring it out of it after the install

Hello

I am creating a 1st website with magento, Now I have a problem with magento loading i.e

Service Unavailable

HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.

Under the root folder of my magento there is no maintenance.flag file

Please help me how can I get out from that problem

Thank You

Hello

I am creating a 1st website with magento, Now I have a problem with magento loading i.e

Service Unavailable

HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.

Under the root folder of my magento there is no maintenance.flag file

Please help me how can I get out from that problem

Thank You

Thank a lot ! I have deleted the file maintenance.flag and it works again. http://www.mensbelt-wallets.com/

SOLUTION:
delete the following file from your /magento/ installation

maintenance.flag

e.g. rm ./magento/maintenance.flag

worked fine.

Thank you

Thanks! This work perfect to me. Magento 1.7.

ireckonUK - 16 March 2011 05:04 PM

I had the same problem.

SOLUTION:
delete the following file from your /magento/ installation

maintenance.flag

e.g. rm ./magento/maintenance.flag

Thank you very much, I got the same issue and this is exactly solution!

Thank you so much it really helps me.

If after the remove of the flag file you get an 404 error and this occurred after you tried to uninstall an extension with connect, then you should go to val/log and check what exactly causes the error.
Probably something isn’t deleted properly, so delete manually and reload the website.
This will make the trick

Sindre|ProperHost - 16 March 2011 10:49 PM
There are two main reasons why you may get this error.

1. There is an actual problem with the server, resulting in the 503 error response. In this case, you should contact your hosting provider.

2. Your store has been put in maintenance mode. If Magento sees a file named maintenance.flag in the root directory, it will automatically redirect all requests to the default 503 error page. This can be used during upgrades, etc. to prevent users from accessing the store. The solution is, as already mentioned, to delete/rename the maintenance.flag file.

There might also be a good idea to create a more user friendly “maintenance page” than the 503 error, which is kind of misleading for customers.

That helped!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve homepage content slider installed. but now I get error message: The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

Just follow ireckonU instruction.
Sometime it is permission error, so just change to correct permission of folder and files then re-install .
Good luck!