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Once your site is in maintenance mode, your login buttons disappear and you can only reach your log in login via direct urlURL. Simply go to:

yoursite.com/user/login if you have short urls URLs enabled (and replace "yoursite" with your own domain)

yoursite.com/index.php/user/login if you don't have short urls URLs enabled. 

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If you also changed the Admin user group to No for Can Stay Logged Into the Site, you'll need to go in to the database to resolve that issue. This step is not for novices and could cause harm to your database if you don't know how to work in databases. Please contact us for help if you are not familiar with databases.

Please backup your database before making changes to it. 

1. Log into your PhpmyadminPHPMyAdmin.
2. Find the table phpfox_user_group_setting
3. Find the setting_id for can_stay_logged_in and change it to 1 for the admin user group or registered or whatever user groups can't log in (except for banned).
4. The setting itself is also in phpfox_user_setting. Make sure you remember the setting_id for this and go in the phpfox_user_setting to change it also for those user groups.
5. You will need to manually clear cache after this change. On your server, find the cache folder in PF.Base/file/cache and rename it to cachebu. Once you've renamed the cache folder, make a new cache folder and copy one of the index.html files into it (this just prevents nosy people from being able to see what's in your cache folder if they try to go to direct urlURL). This folder should immediately start filling with files which are needed to run the site. Check your site and if everything is fine, delete the cachebu folder you renamed earlier.
6. Also, check for the setting user_is_banned under the core settings. This is intended only for the banned user group. If you set your user group at 1 then you need to set it to 0 so that user group is not banned.

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