Site and admin area offline!?

ron182 · 06.04.2005, 03:33

Hi,

My whole Mambo site just went offline for no reason! I tried to access the admin area but I get the same offline message. I'm really stuck. What's going on??

Is there a file I can edit to bring the site online again?

Has this happened to anybody else?

Thanks,
Ron

sps · 06.04.2005, 03:50

Have you checked with your hosting service to see if there's a problem on their side?

Cheers

ron182 · 06.04.2005, 04:01

Good question,

Not yet because it's a well known host and I don't think the problem is from their end. However they do have a backup tool, which i'm going try if all else fails.

I just found the offline code, it's in the index.php file

line 23

// displays offline page
if ( $mosConfig_offline == 1 ){
include( 'offline.php' );
exit();
}

So I changed the 1 to a 0, which I've tried before and it worked. But with this site I just got another error message asking me to completly remove my Mambo installation folder before preceeding... My site has been online for a month now, and obviously I removed the installation folder right at the start.
I don't have a clue what's going on, it's like something just snapped and my site is dead all a sudden.

ron182 · 06.04.2005, 04:32

OK.. the site and the admin just came back online again.

I don't know how, I don't know why.

I just hope it never happens again.

iKiran · 06.04.2005, 04:40

It is possible that it due to a MySQL error at the hosting site. It is common and corrects itself rapidly.

Other reason could be that the server restarted.

My guesses

robbie · 06.04.2005, 12:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by iKiran

It is possible that it due to a MySQL error at the hosting site. It is common and corrects itself rapidly.

Other reason could be that the server restarted.

My guesses

Mostly the off-line message is displayed if the SQL server is down indeed

, had it just a few days ago also, solves automaticly.