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Luca Lusso
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Luca Lusso

Luca Lusso is a Drupal developer with more than 15 years experience, he started with Drupal 5 and PHP 5 in an era where deployments with FTP were still a thing. Since then, he worked as a consultant and contributed to build some of the biggest Drupal websites in Italy. Luca is also a teacher and he has taught Drupal to a lot of different teams, from universities to big system integrators. Luca is an open source lover and Drupal contributor, he maintains some popular modules like WebProfiler and Monolog. He's also a speaker in conferences like DrupalCon Europe and Drupal Developer Days. Lately, he has shifted his interest towards frontend performances. Luca holds a master's degree in Computer Science and he's an Acquia certified developer.
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Styling the maintenance page

When you need to perform a massive update to your website, it’s a good practice to put it in maintenance mode.

Drupal allows you to enable maintenance mode and provide a custom message to show to your customers:

Figure 10.1 – The form to configure and enable maintenance mode

Figure 10.1 – The form to configure and enable maintenance mode

The URL of the configuration page shown in Figure 10.1 is /admin/config/development/maintenance. Here, you can enable maintenance mode and set a message. The message text only allows plain strings, and the only dynamic part is @site, which will be replaced with the name of the site (as configured on /admin/config/system/site-information).

Suggestions for the maintenance page are as follows:

  • maintenance-page--offline.html.twig: Used when the site is offline due to some internal error, such as a broken database connection
  • maintenance-page--front.html.twig: Used for the front page of the site and also for pages such as update...
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Luca Lusso is a Drupal developer with more than 15 years experience, he started with Drupal 5 and PHP 5 in an era where deployments with FTP were still a thing. Since then, he worked as a consultant and contributed to build some of the biggest Drupal websites in Italy. Luca is also a teacher and he has taught Drupal to a lot of different teams, from universities to big system integrators. Luca is an open source lover and Drupal contributor, he maintains some popular modules like WebProfiler and Monolog. He's also a speaker in conferences like DrupalCon Europe and Drupal Developer Days. Lately, he has shifted his interest towards frontend performances. Luca holds a master's degree in Computer Science and he's an Acquia certified developer.
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