# Unable to login as admin after enabling read only mode
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-login-as-admin-after-enabling-read-only-mode/85362
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** read-only
**Created:** [April 15, 2018, 8:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-login-as-admin-after-enabling-read-only-mode/85362 "2018-04-15T08:08:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Gulshan\_Kumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gulshan_Kumar)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 8:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-login-as-admin-after-enabling-read-only-mode/85362/1 "2018-04-15T08:08:07Z")
My site says “Login is disabled while the site is in read only mode?” so I cannot log in:
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 8:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-login-as-admin-after-enabling-read-only-mode/85362/2 "2018-04-15T08:10:29Z")
~~Visit `yoursite.com/u/admin-login` i.e. `help.gulshankumar.net/u/admin-login` and then try to log in if that works?~~
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### Author:  [@Gulshan\_Kumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gulshan_Kumar)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 8:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-login-as-admin-after-enabling-read-only-mode/85362/3 "2018-04-15T08:13:34Z")
Hi,
Thanks for the response. I tried, it says -
`{"errors":["The site is in read only mode. Interactions are disabled."],"error_type":"read_only"}`
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 8:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-login-as-admin-after-enabling-read-only-mode/85362/4 "2018-04-15T08:15:10Z")
Depending upon how you enabled the read only mode, here is some help:
> [@Cant disable read-only mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-disable-read-only-mode/72242/2):
>
> It depends on how you trigger readonly mode. There is a list of keys that you can pass to Postgres depending on how you trigger it
or
> [@Stuck in 'Read Only' Mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stuck-in-read-only-mode/42820/2):
>
> If you can ssh into the site host, try this : ./launcher enter app rails c Discourse.disable\_readonly\_mode
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### Author:  [@Gulshan\_Kumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gulshan_Kumar)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 8:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-login-as-admin-after-enabling-read-only-mode/85362/5 "2018-04-15T08:21:32Z")
I **had enabled read-only** mode from admin area from where we do backup.
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-login-as-admin-after-enabling-read-only-mode/85362/6 "2018-04-15T08:24:47Z")
Second option I suggested above should work for you. Please do not log out the next time you put your forum into read only mode.
Ps: Try searching before posting a new query, You may find your solution into a similar question asked by someone else.
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### Author:  [@Gulshan\_Kumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gulshan_Kumar)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 8:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-login-as-admin-after-enabling-read-only-mode/85362/7 "2018-04-15T08:30:33Z")
Sorry, I couldn’t understand above written steps. Do I need to edit any code? 🤔
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 8:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-login-as-admin-after-enabling-read-only-mode/85362/8 "2018-04-15T08:34:37Z")
You don’t have to edit anything. Just ssh into your discourse server and do the following:
> cd /var/discourse
> ./launcher enter app
> rails c
> Discourse.disable\_readonly\_mode(Discourse::USER\_READONLY\_MODE\_KEY)
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### Author:  [@Gulshan\_Kumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gulshan_Kumar)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 8:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-login-as-admin-after-enabling-read-only-mode/85362/9 "2018-04-15T08:38:16Z")
I hope everything is fine.
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 8:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-login-as-admin-after-enabling-read-only-mode/85362/10 "2018-04-15T08:44:47Z")
Try again. You may have entered the commands incorrectly. It should return like this:
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### Author:  [@Gulshan\_Kumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gulshan_Kumar)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 8:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-login-as-admin-after-enabling-read-only-mode/85362/11 "2018-04-15T08:54:50Z")
I replicated above steps. Still, site is showing in the read-only mode.
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### Author:  [@Gulshan\_Kumar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gulshan_Kumar)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 8:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-login-as-admin-after-enabling-read-only-mode/85362/12 "2018-04-15T08:58:53Z")
`Discourse.disable_readonly_mode`
Not working.
`Discourse.disable_readonly_mode(Discourse::USER_READONLY_MODE_KEY)`
Working.
Thanks a lot. Now I am able to login.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-login-as-admin-after-enabling-read-only-mode/85362/13 "2020-08-27T18:23:56Z")