{"id":4006,"date":"2020-03-11T08:49:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T08:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/general-questions\/should-i-turn-on-maintenance-mode-during-migration\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T07:08:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T07:08:18","slug":"maintenance-mode-during-migration","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/general-questions\/data-integrity\/maintenance-mode-during-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I need to turn on maintenance mode during migration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We highly recommend you to turn on maintenance mode on the Target Store before data transfer. This action helps avoid any possibility of data loss, which may happen during the migration process. In the maintenance mode, your customers will see a temporary page with information about how the service works.<\/p>\n<p>We have compiled the instructions to turn on maintenance mode on several shopping cart platforms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devdocs.magento.com\/guides\/v2.3\/install-gde\/install\/cli\/install-cli-subcommands-maint.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Enabling Maintenance Mode in Magento 2.x<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/help.shopify.com\/en\/manual\/intro-to-shopify\/initial-setup#password-protect-your-storefront\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Enabling Maintenance Mode in Shopify<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcomet.com\/tutorials\/woocommerce\/maintenance-mode-activation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Enabling Maintenance Mode in WooCommerce<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/prestashop-16\/set-maintenance-mode\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Enabling Maintenance Mode in PrestaShop<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/opencart\/315-enabling-maintenance-mode-in-opencart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Enabling Maintenance Mode in OpenCart<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.bigcommerce.com\/s\/article\/Maintenance-Mode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Enabling Maintenance Mode in BigCommerce<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In case you have any other questions, please reach out to us via:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/litextension.zendesk.com\/hc\/en-us\/signin?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Flitextension.zendesk.com%2Fhc%2Fen-us%2Frequests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ticket system<\/a> (highly recommended)<\/li>\n<li>Email us at <a href=\"mailto:contact@litextension.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact@litextension.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6246,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[1280],"class_list":["post-4006","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_tag-maintenance-mode"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5694,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4006\/revisions\/5694"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/6246"}],"next":[{"title":"Does migration affect the speed of online stores?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/general-questions\/data-integrity\/migration-affect-speed-of-online-store\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/303"}],"prev":[{"title":"Can you maintain the URL structure of your Source Store after migration?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/general-questions\/data-integrity\/will-the-url-structure-of-the-original-site-be-maintained-on-the-new-site-after-store-migration\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}