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. There is a list of keys that you can pass to Postgres depending on how you trigger it

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.