Is there a Update mode to close Blog for update ?

BerlinOS · Post by **BerlinOS** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 3:25 pm

Hi, i want to update Serendipity for a friend.

He has hundreds of visitors the day and i wonder if there will be a problem when i upload the updated files to the server and someone visits the page (and starts the update process until not all files have been tranfered to the server). Is there a way to close the blog for the update period so noone can start the update by mistake ?

Thank you for any help,

Oliver - using actually Ser´ 1.5.5 on PHP 5.2.17

Timbalu · Post by **Timbalu** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 3:51 pm

There is an old solution for that using the htaccess file. I don't have the link by hand, so you have to search for yourself in the serendipity documentary.
On the other hand, my Proof of Concept Dashboard plugin does support a Serendipity Maintenance Mode (see https://github.com/ophian/serendipity_event_dashboard)

Post by **Don Chambers** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 4:59 pm

I temporarily rename the existing .htaccess file to something else. I then replace it with this .htaccess file (change install folder and ip address as needed):

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RewriteEngine On
# Install Folder
RewriteBase /

# Allow access by IP address
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^your.ip.address.here

# Don't loop forever - ie not already the page about to be redirected to
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^503\.php [NC]
RewriteRule .* 503.php [L]

That will redirect everyone other than you to a 503.php file - which you have to create. Here is what that file looks like:

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<?php
ob_start();
header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable');
header('Status: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable');
header('Retry-After: 3600');
?><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>503 Service Temporarily Unavailable</title>
    <style>
    body {
        font: 100.01% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        text-align: center;
    }

    #wrapper {
        width: 800px;
        margin: 20px auto;
        padding:0;
        border:0;
        font-size: 80%;
    }

    h1 {
        color: #CC0000;
        font-size: 1.4em;
    }

    #message p{
        text-align: left;
    }

    #message p.image {
        text-align:center;
    }
    
    #message img {
        border:0;
    }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="wrapper">
        <div id="banner">
            <h1>503 Service Temporarily Unavailable</h1>
        </div>

        <div id="message">
            <p>This website is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance and upgrades currently in progress.&nbsp;&nbsp;We apologize for the inconvenience.&nbsp;&nbsp;Please come back soon.</p>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Once you execute the upgrade, simply delete/rename the temporary .htaccess file, and replace it with the original.

Ian's plugin is probably a great option if you do not want to mess with all this htaccess stuff.

BerlinOS · Post by **BerlinOS** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 11:50 pm

Dear Don an Timbalu,

i will go for the plugin solution first

I get back to you if i run in questions. Thank you so far!

BerlinOS · Post by **BerlinOS** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 12:16 am

Dear Timbalu,

i uploaded your plugin but it says i need version 1.6.
Sadly seems i can not use it.

BerlinOS · Post by **BerlinOS** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 1:03 am

I have now uploaded all files to the server (the new Serendipity version) and visited the admin area at

http://www.mypage/blog/serendipity_admin.php

But there is no updater, it welcomes me with the normal admin start page.
What can be wrong, i have transfered all files (no errors occured and the "Check Installation" says "everythin is checked".

I still have the 1.5.5 version info on the bottom of the admin page so the update did not perform so far.
What can be wrong ?

ps: i did not the htaccess changes (i am a dummy)

Timbalu · Post by **Timbalu** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 9:21 am

BerlinOS wrote:i uploaded your plugin but it says i need version 1.6.
Sadly seems i can not use it.

Opps, yes! I should have remembered that. Sorry!

Try and clean-up all compiled template files in templates_c/ or use CTRL (+ R) + F5 to force reloading the browser cache.

BerlinOS · Post by **BerlinOS** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 7:43 pm

Dear Timbalu,

you mean to delete all files in the templates_c/ folder on the server ?
There are about 40 files, some are more than a year old.

I cleaned the cache and reloaded the admin page, still no updater.

Post by **Don Chambers** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 9:11 pm

BerlinOS wrote:.... i have transfered all files (no errors occured and the "Check Installation" says "everythin is checked".

If you are running 1.5.5, and an integrity check says everything is ok, I question where you actually transferred the files to. Is it possible you didn't overwrite the original files, but transferred them into a different folder?

BerlinOS · Post by **BerlinOS** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 1:08 am

I have checked but i uploaded the files to the folder that is online, all files have a "changed yesterday" date.

I still have the files in the folder templates_c (some older than a year) - should i delete them all ? A cache cleaning and reload has not started the update process.

Timbalu · Post by **Timbalu** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 9:01 am

Yes cleaning the compiled templates in templates_c/ will do not harm other than to force smarty to recompile all its template files again on demand. But I second Don. Its seems you uploaded to somewhere else, as the integrity check should notice changed core file (and there are a lot between 1.5 and 1.6). If that doesn't happen, there are two possibilities: you did upload the same version again or upload to somewhere else.

Edit: Well actually there is a third possibility. You are using a development (alpha) version, which can't verify against integrity check.

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