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Support / Re: After trying to put the forum into maintenance mode, it “disappeared”
Last post by Mrs. Chaos -
I set it back to 0 in settings.php. But that didn't help.
It’s probably because I also activated maintenance mode in the forum’s administration center afterward. I probably shouldn’t have done that. :embarrassed:  Attached are two screenshots I took while doing that (the text is in German).
Is there any way I can get back there? Right now, I don’t know how to do that, since I can’t even access the admin area.
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Support / Re: After trying to put the forum into maintenance mode, it “disappeared”
Last post by Steeley -
Taking a quick stab while waiting for Spuds, the first thing I'd look at is any .htaccess files in the public_html directory (or whatever the webroot folder is.) You may need to set the file manager to show hidden files. The .htaccess file is where servers often tuck IPs to be blocked, etc., and ElkArte (at least my v 1.1.6), has some config info in there as well..
I've not encountered the problem you refer to, but that's the first location I'd sniff around in to see what's there.  If no clues there hopefully Spuds (or someone else more knowledgeable than I) has a better idea..
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Support / After trying to put the forum into maintenance mode, it “disappeared”
Last post by Mrs. Chaos -
Hello!
I'm currently having a problem with my forum that I caused myself ...
Apparently, there was a DDoS attack on it for two days. It wasn’t a very large one, and it doesn’t seem like anyone was trying to sign up or log in, but around the clock, there were 8 to 10 times as many visitors as usual. These “visitors” all had completely different IP addresses, so I couldn’t simply block certain IP ranges.
I then decided to put the forum into maintenance mode for almost a day, hoping that would put an end to these fake visits. But I apparently did something wrong in the process.
There are apparently two ways to set maintenance mode, and I must have chosen the wrong one. In any case, the forum is now completely inaccessible via the internet. A page loading error and a “500 Internal Server Error” are displayed.
I can log into the database through my host. There, I simply restored/imported the latest backup, which I had made two days ago, hoping that the forum would be back online afterward. Unfortunately, it isn’t. It’s still gone.
What else can I try now? What is the correct way?

Greetings to all  :smiley: