Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance

by Robin Malau on 26. Feb, 2010 in Wordpress

If you get this message when upgrading WordPress, no worries.

WordPress put a .maintenance file on your blog’s root directory when you use automatic upgrade. This was meant to protect your blog visitors to see the ugly face of your blog while upgrading. However, when the upgrade fail (happen at times), WordPress don’t delete the files automatically. Then everyone, including yourself will unable to see your blog, and instead seeing the message “Briefly unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance. Check back in a minute.”

What you need to do if you’re facing this situation, is to delete the file manually.

Here’s how:

1. Access your blog folder through FTP. Make sure you enable to view hidden files.

2. Find .maintenance file, and delete it.

3. Refresh your browser and done :D

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4 Responses to “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance”

  1. MoronCoder 02. Mar, 2010 at 1:34 pm #

    betul sekali, sempat mengalaminya beberapa hari yg lalu
    ternyata karena si .maintenance itu, thx to Google

    nice info bro

    Reply
  2. Andre Noore 03. Jun, 2010 at 12:56 am #

    Test test…hehe Test comment dari iPhone simulator, typo versi mobile web anda keren bung, nyaman dibaca :D

    Reply
    • Robin Malau 03. Jun, 2010 at 1:43 am #

      Thanks man! Lumayan keringetan coding nya tuh :D

      Reply

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