Briefly unavailable for Scheduled maintenance
Got this message during a WP plugin update:-
Briefly unavailable for Scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute
This totally locked me out of the blog admin and the site defaulted to the WP page with the message on.
After looking around for an answer I found on one site they advise you to delete the file .maintenance file but, I couldn't find it...
If this happens to you then you can download the file wp-settings.php and remove the html code thus:
Briefly unavailable for Scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute
This totally locked me out of the blog admin and the site defaulted to the WP page with the message on.
After looking around for an answer I found on one site they advise you to delete the file .maintenance file but, I couldn't find it...
If this happens to you then you can download the file wp-settings.php and remove the html code thus:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Maintenance</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.</h1>
</body>
</html>
This works and the site came straight back up again however, I just read a bit more on this and..you might not see the file .maintenance in windows explorer but, you should find it in your file manager on your host..if you do just delete the file .maintenance if not use the above method..
it's a bit scary when it happens
Gordon.
