Service Temporarily Unavailable Magento?

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My application was working fine yesterday. I started my PC today. When I tried to start Magento I got this error message.

Service Temporarily Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

I am not even able to open the admin page or see any sort of errors on the page. If I visit any URL of my Magento site I am getting the above output. How do I resolve this?

Angularity answered 12/11, 2011 at 5:37 Comment(2)

Is Magento running on a web server online or on your local computer? What are your environment details (web server, PHP, etc)? Did you recently add any extensions? Is any part of the page loading or is what you posted (literally) everything that's on the page? – Aminopyrine 12/11, 2011 at 5:52

Thanks Matthew. Its On Local, I am using Ubuntu and Xampp.. I tried to install magic zoom yesterday but that was not Installed , it was showing an error Can't connect to site try again later.. – Angularity 12/11, 2011 at 7:7

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Check if there is a file called maintenance.flag and if so delete it.

Magento 1.x : maintenance.flag file is in : magento root directory

Magento 2.x : maintenance.flag file is in : var folder

When Magento is performing certain tasks it temporarily creates this file. Magento checks for its existence and if it's there will send users to the page you described.

It's supposed to automatically delete this file when done processing whatever task it was doing, but I've experienced occasions where something went wrong and it failed to delete it.

Durwyn answered 26/11, 2011 at 0:12 Comment(7)

I've faced the same problem after unsuccessful install of a module from magento connect. Deleting the file worked. – Palmer 19/7, 2014 at 5:38

Where is maintenance.flag file ? – Pedestrianism 24/2, 2015 at 4:52

@jQuery.PHP.Magento.com It would be in the root folder of your magento website. But it will only be there if the site is stuck in maintenance mode. Under normal operations this file won't exist. – Durwyn 24/2, 2015 at 9:14

the flag in in /var/www/html/magento/maintenance.flag (centOS + apache server) – Zobias 18/8, 2016 at 8:39

happening in Ubuntu VM but no flag file – Reichert 3/11, 2016 at 12:16

What if there is no maintenance.flag file? – Hollerman 22/11, 2017 at 14:0

If you're not seeing a maintenance.flag file it could mean the error has become cached at some level. Delete all the files in the magento cache folder. If that doesn't work, you may have other cache you need to clear such as memcache or APC if you're using either of those. – Durwyn 22/11, 2017 at 23:45

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Simply delete the maintenance.flag file in root folder and then delete the files of cache folder and session folder inside var/ folder.

Banderilla answered 31/12, 2013 at 9:10 Comment(0)

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Now in new version magento2 on Generate error Service Temporarily Unavailable.

Remove maintenance.flag

From this path which is changed magento2/var/maintenance.flag.

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$ rm maintenance.flag

Odrick answered 25/3, 2015 at 5:10 Comment(1)

for us it was magento2/var/.maintenance.flag – Stelu 10/3, 2016 at 16:9

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To fix Service Temporarily Unavailable Magento 2, you should:

Delete a file called var/.maintenance.flag in Magento root folder
Remove Magento cache if any: php bin/magento cache:flush

Dorthadorthea answered 13/9, 2016 at 9:33 Comment(0)

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I had the same issue but have not found the maintenance.flag file in my Magento root. I simply deleted cache and sessions files and all worked again.

Jacklynjackman answered 13/9, 2014 at 9:25 Comment(1)

I had to delete both sessions and cache files to get it to worked, thanks. – Highlander 18/11, 2014 at 9:2

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You need to follow these steps:

Go to magento root directory via cPanel/FTP
In case of Magento1, you will find maintenance.flag and delete it
In case of Magento2, delete var/maintenance.flag

Mardellmarden answered 31/1, 2017 at 5:2 Comment(0)

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go to your website via FTP/Cpanel, find maintenance.flag and remove

Spidery answered 14/7, 2015 at 4:4 Comment(1)

It seems that the question had already been answered: stackoverflow.com/a/8275318 – Mccandless 14/7, 2015 at 18:47

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In Magento 2 You have to remove file located in /var/.maintenance.flag - just realized that after some searching, so i shall share.

Liquesce answered 19/12, 2016 at 11:40 Comment(0)

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You can do this thing:

Go to http://localhost/magento/downloader url. Here I am running the magento store on my localhost. Now you can login to magento connect manager and uninstall the extension which you installed previously.

Hope this works !!!!!

Thanks.

Portsalut answered 5/7, 2012 at 10:9 Comment(1)

Kind of overkill to remove a module just because it left behind a maintenance.flag file. Manually clear the cache, remove maintenance.flag and see if you can log into the admin panel to finish module installation. – Icosahedron 2/8, 2013 at 15:53

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If you run into this problem (like I did) and NO maintenance.flag file exists anywhere, it's the Redis cache that's causing the problem; clear it.

I had to clear the Redis cache by contacting my hosting company and let them do it because I don't have access to that cache.

I figured this out using this answer: https://magento.stackexchange.com/a/55814/77803

Exuviate answered 26/3, 2019 at 10:22 Comment(1)

Had same issue with Redis, using CM_Redis module the 503 is returned here /app/code/local/Cm/RedisSession/Model/Session.php - I had some ConcurrentConnectionsExceededException so I increased the max_concurrency number without clearing the cache. – Copley 9/10, 2019 at 13:14

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Check the root folder of your Magento installation directory .You will find maintenance.flag file, delete it and refresh the site .it will work fine.

Bennir answered 19/5, 2017 at 13:54 Comment(0)

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I happen all the time when you install a new plugin. You just have to delete maintenance.flag file in your root directory

Engird answered 13/3, 2019 at 13:31 Comment(0)

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If removing the flag shows service temporary unavailable. Go to "http://localhost.com/downloader" and unisntall slider banner,BusinessDecision_Interaktingslider,lightbox2 and anotherone that I dont remember.

Megadeath answered 7/7, 2014 at 17:3 Comment(0)

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