WEBSITE CRASHES WHEN IT GOES INTO MAINTENANCE

tracym17

afm-ags.org

Hi there - we recently moved the website and domain over to a new VM server. Now, when any plugin gets updated, the site goes into maintenance mode and crashes. The website was searching for a .maintenance file (that did not exist after the website move).... so we added the file .maintenance and the site loaded again.

Do you know what is going on here? This is a new error for me - not sure what is happening with maintenance...

[2025/09/10, 19:00:17] Jonathan Youngs: 2025-09-10 18:56:44.550833 [NOTICE] [58391] [197.234.242.121:37642:HTTP2-61>41.144.5.2#afm-ags.org-443] [STDERR] PHP Warning: require(/home/admin/domains/afm-ags.org/public_html/.maintenance): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/admin/domains/afm-ags.org/public_html/wp-includes/load.php on line 441

2025-09-10 18:56:44.550881 [NOTICE] [58391] [197.234.242.121:37642:HTTP2-61>41.144.5.2#afm-ags.org-443] [STDERR] PHP Warning: require(/home/admin/domains/afm-ags.org/public_html/.maintenance): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/admin/domains/afm-ags.org/public_html/wp-includes/load.php on line 441

2025-09-10 18:56:44.550895 [NOTICE] [58391] [197.234.242.121:37642:HTTP2-61>41.144.5.2#afm-ags.org-443] [STDERR] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Failed opening required '/home/admin/domains/afm-ags.org/public_html/.maintenance' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php81/lib/php') in /home/admin/domains/afm-ags.org/public_html/wp-includes/load.php:441

Stack trace:

[2025/09/10, 19:00:44] Jonathan Youngs: Its looking for the maintenance file which is a require somewhere