Help with site maintainance [#131793]

I've hit the "Switch to test user" link by mistake while configuring the site in "site maintainance" mode.

I cannot log back. I tried all the usual methods. What can I do? Change something into the database?

Pls help me:P

Comments

Comment #1

stella CreditAttribution: stella commented 28 March 2007 at 15:26

have you tried navigating directly to www.mydomain.com/user to login back in as the admin user? Or if you're still logged in, you could try www.mydomain.com/logout first perhaps? What else have you tried?

Cheers,
Stella

Comment #2

mishhh CreditAttribution: mishhh commented 28 March 2007 at 15:33

I tried to login through www.mysite.com/?q=user but no chance

I didn't try logout but I've managed to resolve it by deleting the session for my admin user from database (sessions table). After this move, now www.mysite.com/?q=user works again...

Only after posting I saw another task request to put a "switch back" link in the "site offline" page. I guess it is a good idea, if it's not hard to implement such a feature.

Thank you anyway for your rapid response. I'm impressed:)

Comment #3

icj CreditAttribution: icj commented 3 May 2007 at 08:03

Better would be not to allow you to switch users if the site is in maintenance mode.

Comment #4

spydmobile CreditAttribution: spydmobile commented 10 June 2007 at 19:33

I have had this probelm too, but I disagree with he previous comment to disable switching while in maintenance, this means I cannot masquerade as a test user and see my site maintenance message, rather provide an URL we can load to revert back to ourself.....in the mean time I will go and try to find the database entry that reverts back to normal online mode I guess.....