Instructions for fixing WordPress's Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance error

- For WordPress users, if they proceed to update the version being used to 3.1.1, it may be the following error: all content and admin pages of WordPress will not be accessible. Update, and display the Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance error message . Check back in a minute.

The main reason for this may be because when the update process started, the official part was not actually completed, all displayed at this time was the ' Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance. Check back in a minute '. Therefore, users cannot access any content or admin pages. In essence, when WordPress automatically upgrades, the system will insert the file. Maintenance to the root directory, it is the task of displaying the notification to the user not to interrupt this process. Once the core - core part and database are updated, the above .maintenance file will automatically be deleted and the website's operation will return to normal. But sometimes, this process fails at a certain stage, and the .maintenence file is not deleted. Therefore, notice ' Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance. Check back in a minute. 'Still showing.

And to fix this problem, we will have to delete the data manually. Log in to the server via ftp account, access the root directory of WordPress:

After deleting the .maintenence file, the website's operation will return to normal. If you still have problems while updating the database, log in to WP Admin and select the upgrade option when the system requires it. Good luck!