Maintenance Mode not for admin

[joelfcarvalho3427]

Hello.

I need to be working around on the site but keep it in maintenance mode. But it seems I can only do this on the back-end and not on the front-end. If you do some modification, you want to check it out before going live, right? Am I overlooking something or it is not currently possible?

Maybe the script should keep the maintenance mode off for logged-in admin users?
Or the maintenance mode switch have an additional option: Yes / No / Yes except admins
Or maybe create a new field on the settings to set an exclusion IP (or range) for which the maintenance mode would be off?

Is there a way?

 

[adam]

You can tweak the code to allow access for admin users, you'll need to login via the /admin/ pages though.

Open include/master.inc.php
Find and delete:

// check for maintenance mode
if(SITE_CONFIG_MAINTENANCE_MODE == 'yes')
{
    showMaintenancePage();
}

In the same file, find:

$Auth = Auth::getAuth();

After add:

// check for maintenance mode
if((SITE_CONFIG_MAINTENANCE_MODE == 'yes') && ($Auth->level_id <= 2))
{
    showMaintenancePage();
}

This will show the maintenance page for any non, free and paid users.

 

[joelfcarvalho3427]

Thank you Adam. It's just what I wanted.
And it works.