Maintenance mode problem

When I invoke maintenance mode, my site shows an Apache test page and as admin I can’t publish changes to the site.

How are you “invoking” maintenance mode? Are you using a WordPress plugin, or is this a feature of some server control panel you’re using?

The author of the tool you’re using can best advice you here.

The Apache page says “to prevent this page from ever being used, follow the instructions in the file /etc/hyypd/conf.d/welcome.conf.” I have no idea where this file would be. Any help gratefully accepted.

This is a server-level issue, and not something controlled by WordPress.

The location of the file is clearly given in your message (though I the path is httpd and not hyypd).

You’ll likely need to login to your server via SSH to deal with this, unless you have some web-based control panel that allows you to edit server configuration files in the browser.

You can contact your host for help. Or if you’re using a self-managed cloud server or VPS and this falls outside the support you can expect from your host, google for instructions for your specific OS.

Hi George;

Thanks for your reply. I have sent a message to my hosting service requesting assistance regarding the ‘Apache’ issue. Yes you are quite correct ‘hyypd’ should be httpd’. Please forgive my fat fingers.

As for how I invoke Maintenance Mode; I do so by Signing into my Plesk dashboard, selecting WordPress and then selecting ON with the slider on the bottom right hand corner of the WordPress Toolkit page. I do not use a separate Maintenance Mode plugin and had assumed this was part of the basic WordPress package.

Thanks again for your help
Chuck

Hi again
Just a quick followup. Once again you were right. I was in fact using a plugin, just didn’t know it. The ‘Maintenance Mode’ plugin comes with the Plesk WordPress package.
Talked to my hosting service and we agreed that the best move was to start fresh. I still don’t know exactly what I did wrong, however I learned a lot from the experience.

Thanks again
Chuck