Books on Drupal

There are a few books on Drupal and they range from everything for the beginner to everything for the advanced. I have a page devoted to Drupal books that are available for purchase along with a review on each of them.

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Playing Drupal's Site Maintenance Mode

Submitted by Drupal Dude on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 11:59am.

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If you are working on your Drupal site and you want to take if offline temporarily, Drupal has a setting that allows you to do this. They call the Site Maintenance. You can find it under the Site Configuration menu. What this does is takes your site offline to anonymous users and authenticated users. The only person who has access to the site is the administrator. Any viewer will get a message stating that the site is offline. You can change the message that the user views to whatever you want as well.This tip came to me via email. Someone asked how they could get back into the site after they made it offline. All you need to do is go to your site and add to the url /user, an example would be: your-drupal-test-site.com/userOnce you enter this url, you will be at the login screen. Just log in using your administrator password, and you are back in business.

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Hmm...I wish I could

Submitted by Bob (not verified) on Wed, 06/18/2008 - 2:51am.

Hmm...I wish I could remember how I did this....But in the past, I simply was able to modify the entire maintenance page by just using CSS...not need for all the php stuff.

As just a guess, I'm thinking I simply put my page content (including all the tags) into the maintenance text box and styled using the maintenance.css file. Simple and straightforward.

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Thanks!

Submitted by Stephen (not verified) on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 6:37am.

All of the Drupal documentation on Drupal.org instructs me to navigate to mysite.com/?q=user.

I think that instruction assumes that you do not have URL masking enabled, as it didn't work for me and I was slightly panicked for a bit. The url form suggested in this post does work. Bear in mind whether or not you have URL aliasing enabled, as I believe this will effect which URL will work for you.

Whew! Glad I got back in!

Thank You!

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how to change the message

Submitted by omnyx (not verified) on Wed, 03/19/2008 - 12:34am.

and the picture that are shown when the website is online?
I love drupal icon but I'd like to use my site logo and a custom message...
thanks!