WordPress prompt Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance Check back in a minute

Prompt when upgrading WordPress plug-ins today“ Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute ”As the Chinese translation said, "Routine maintenance is in progress, please come back in a minute", but the whole website could not be opened. This is not the first time I have encountered this problem, so I am familiar with it.

Solution to "Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute"

The root cause of this prompt is that WordPress automatically generates a. maintenance file during the upgrade process to prevent people from visiting the website during the upgrade process. When the upgrade is successful, the. maintenance file will be automatically deleted. However, the. maintenance file has not been automatically deleted due to the upgrade failure. We only need to delete it manually to solve the problem.

Method 1: Delete by ssh command

Through the ssh command, switch to the root directory of your website, and then enter rm - rf. maintenance.

Do not use ssh to manage the server. Please refer to: #Basic Tutorial of Building Station # Xshell 6: Connecting VPS

Method 2: Delete through the pagoda panel file function

Log in to the background of the pagoda panel, click the folder on your website, find the. maintenance file and delete it.

Forgot the background address of the pagoda panel? See: What to do if the pagoda panel forgets the background login website

Method 3: Delete the. maintenance file through FTP

Open the FTP software, recommend FileZilla, a free FTP software, log in to the root directory of your website, and then find the. maintenance file to delete.

Method 4: Modify the wp-activate.php file

If you can't find the. maintenance file mentioned above, you can try this method. Find the file wp-activate.php in the root directory of the website, and modify it through ssh or ftp to download it locally.

In line 9, define ('WP_INSTALLING ', true);

Modify to: define ('WP_INSTALLING ', false);

Then upload and refresh the website to access it normally.

How to update WordPress manually

If you need to update WordPress manually, please refer to the previous article: Tutorial for manually upgrading WordPress If it is an upgraded plug-in, download the new version of the plug-in compression package directly, decompress it, upload and overwrite the old plug-in.

You can also delete the old plug-in in the background and reinstall the new plug-in by uploading a zip package.