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Resolution: Unresolved
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NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion.
It would be nice to have a feature in the administration section that could close the site for all non administrative users. Users without administrator access would only receive a page that said:
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SITE IS DOWN
<Reason text configurable in the admin section.>
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This would allow administrators to close the site before doing backups(exports) prior to upgrading the application, minimizing the chance for users to modify anything between a backup and an upgrade/restore.
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[CONFSERVER-1029] Site is down for maintenance page
Due to an power outage at our site all servers were shutdown. On startup all servers started properly except the database. While the db-admins are working on the fix, Jira is able to show a "Jira had problems starting up" message with details pointing to the database connection problem.
Confluence simply shows an "500" error page stating the exception "Confluence is vacant, a call to tenanted [public abstract org.hibernate.Session org.hibernate.SessionFactory.getCurrentSession() throws org.hibernate.HibernateException] is not allowed." To users this may seem as the application is broken. Whereas the application is "only" waiting for the db-connection to be established. Wouldn't it make sense to show something more user friendly?
Yeah, such a pain. We have to send out a site-wide email to all users that Confluence is going to be rebooted, or that we are doing upgrades and there may be temporary outage. Of course, not every one sees the emails, so get tons of "hey, the macro show unkown now" or "I lost my data!" messages.
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added a comment - Another trivial feature open for 12.5 years now… wow! 
Chris Johnson
added a comment - This would really help me out, we do weekly updates to a public space, I need the ability to switch the instance to "maintenance mode" while I'm doing a space delete/import.
Chris Johnson
added a comment - This would really help me out, we do weekly updates to a public space, I need the ability to switch the instance to "maintenance mode" while I'm doing a space delete/import. Having recentlyfinished evaluating Confluence and having convinced all that it is the right tool for our docuemtntion I was a little surprised when I couldnt lock out users in order to administer the site. I beleive that this capability is absolutely essential in an Enterprise level wiki and was even more surprised that the facility request has been around since 2004
avi carmi
added a comment - I would also love to have this, and even more, I would love to have a "graceful shutdown" mode, where it prevents new logins, announces (via pop up?) to current users that the system is going down, monitors how many users are still using/updating/editing/uploading/downloading, and when the count is zero, shuts down the system into maintenance mode.
-avi
avi carmi
added a comment - I would also love to have this, and even more, I would love to have a "graceful shutdown" mode, where it prevents new logins, announces (via pop up?) to current users that the system is going down, monitors how many users are still using/updating/editing/uploading/downloading, and when the count is zero, shuts down the system into maintenance mode.
-avi 