WordPress Upgrade error:Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance

Since wordpress get upgraded to WordPress 3.0 , one comman errors that arise while upgrading wordpress or Plugins. this error comes in a situation when some upgrade gets failed or inbetween stop. Whenever you upgrade something and it fails your blog gets stuck in maintenance mode. Reason: During an automatic upgrade, WordPress places a file in the blog root directory called “.maintenance” to prevent visitors from being confronted with ugly, broken pages during the upgrade process. That’s a great little built-in feature, but if the upgrade gets interrupted or fails for any reason, that file doesn’t get deleted and nobody, including you, can access your blog. No worries, here is a two solution to overcome from this problem. To overcome from this problem, u must have FTP Access to your hosting Account wher wordpres get Installed

Solution: 1

you have to remove a small file called .maintenance that will fix this error ” Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute“. You may or not be able to see the .maintenance with your ftp Software.It  depends on whether you use secure access or not . It is best  to go into your cpanel and Access via WebFtp. Delete the .maintenance file.You are up and running .

Solution: 2

Alternatively, you can edit the  wp-settings.php and comment following line which you may found at line no:50. following line:

// Check if we're in maintenance mode.
wp_maintenance();

it’s on line 50, simply make it:

// Check if we're in maintenance mode.
// wp_maintenance();

I hope this tips will save your hours, if you still have any doubt, let me know by comments.i will personally help you to fix this issue.

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