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Error 503 Site temporarily unavailable

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    helenindublin Reply #1, 13 years, 8 months ago
    I’m running XAMPP on Windows XP.
    When I try to install MODx Revolution, I keep getting
    the following message

    ’Error 503 Site temporarily unavailable’

    Please help!
    Helen
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      Henrik Nielsen Reply #2, 13 years, 8 months ago
      You should go to http://localhost/your-site/setup to get to the installer.

      And welcome to MODx!
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        lucasdegen Reply #3, 11 years, 10 months ago
        Ola, I get the same error but because of a different action*.

        I've accidentally deleted some files on the DEV server, I've but them back but now I get and 503 error.
        Should I change folders rights?

        Also when I move from DEV to LIVE I get a 530 error.


        reason why I accidentally deleted files
        * I've opened my FTP client Filezilla, two tabs: the livesite and the dev site. I mixed them up and accidentally deleted files from the DEV site.

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          lucasdegen Reply #4, 11 years, 10 months ago
          Ok, it was me.

          The path in the config files need to be changed

          in the \core\config\config.inc
          and in the root \config.core.php

          I always make an back-up of my DEV and LIVE config file:
          config.inc - DEV.php
          config.inc - LIVE.php
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            lucasdegen Reply #5, 11 years, 4 months ago
            I've had some problems installing MODX on our webhost, it gave a 503 on host A, but the same install worked on host B.

            We found out a few months ago it had to do with a setting on host A. Now I know which setting it is:

            php_admin_value suhosin.executor.disable_eval 0
            php_admin_value suhosin.get.max_value_length 4096

            Mark Hamstra send me this link about it:
            http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/MODX+and+Suhosin