Unable to login as admin after enabling read only mode

[Gulshan_Kumar (Ultra Noob)]

My site says “Login is disabled while the site is in read only mode?” so I cannot log in:

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

Visit yoursite.com/u/admin-login i.e. help.gulshankumar.net/u/admin-login and then try to log in if that works?

[Gulshan_Kumar (Ultra Noob)]

Hi,

Thanks for the response. I tried, it says -

{"errors":["The site is in read only mode. Interactions are disabled."],"error_type":"read_only"}

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

Depending upon how you enabled the read only mode, here is some help:

Cant disable read-only mode

It depends on how you trigger readonly mode. https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/discourse.rb#L291-L295 There is a list of keys that you can pass to Postgres depending on how you trigger it https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/discourse.rb#L256-L259

or

Stuck in 'Read Only' Mode

If you can ssh into the site host, try this : ./launcher enter app rails c Discourse.disable_readonly_mode

[Gulshan_Kumar (Ultra Noob)]

I had enabled read-only mode from admin area from where we do backup.

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

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.

[Gulshan_Kumar (Ultra Noob)]

Sorry, I couldn’t understand above written steps. Do I need to edit any code?

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

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)

[Gulshan_Kumar (Ultra Noob)]

I hope everything is fine.

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

Try again, You may have entered the commands incorrectly. It should return like this:

[Gulshan_Kumar (Ultra Noob)]

I replicated above steps. Still, site is showing in the read-only mode.

[Gulshan_Kumar (Ultra Noob)]

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.