This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to Drupal.
Now let’s learn how to maintain our Drupal website.
Click the Administer link.
Scroll down
Click Site maintenance.
This is the Site Maintenance page. Under normal circumstances, your Site Status should be set to Online. If you wanted to work on the website and didn’t want people to have access to it while you worked, you would want to change this setting to offline.
Scroll down
Click Save configuration.
If you want, you can further personalize the Site offline message here.
The site is now offline. Turning the site back online is just as easy.
The site is now online. We can return to this page anytime to toggle online and offline while working on the site.
This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to maintain your site in Drupal.