About WCMS/ 'website' setting, we are trying to temporarily disable site

[arthurjs2]

Every time we put the Website 'Active' on 'False',

Within 30 minutes it is back on 'True' and the website can be reached!

Is there a way to permanently DISABLE the website untill we put it on active again??

Thank you!

[arvind-kumar_avinash]

Did you check if there is any cronjob resetting its value?

[arthurjs2]

Between the active/scheduled cronjobs it is far from obvious which one would have this effect.

[arvind-kumar_avinash]

Most likely, your content catalog synchronization job is scheduled to run for every 30 minutes and it is causing this. The solution to this is to exclude this property from being synchronized. You can do it using hMC or an ImpEx script e.g.

 INSERT_UPDATE SyncAttributeDescriptorConfig;syncJob(code)[unique=true,path-delimiter=!];attributeDescriptor(enclosingType(code), qualifier)[unique=true];includedInSync;copyByValue
 ;sync-job-code;itemtype-code:attribute-qualifier-to-be-excluded;false;false

In your case, it should be:

 INSERT_UPDATE SyncAttributeDescriptorConfig;syncJob(code)[unique=true,path-delimiter=!];attributeDescriptor(enclosingType(code), qualifier)[unique=true];includedInSync;copyByValue
 ;sync-job-code;CMSSite:active;false;false

[andyfletcher]

~~or.... just mark the site as inactive in the staged catalog and sync?~~

EDIT: not sure what I'm thinking, CMSSite isn't catalog version aware!

[arthurjs2]

Great idea! Just added this, now to check if it worked 🙂 Thank you in advance

 INSERT_UPDATE SyncAttributeDescriptorConfig; syncJob(code)[default = synjobName][unique = true][path-delimiter = !]; attributeDescriptor(enclosingType(code), qualifier)[unique = true]; includedInSync; copyByValue
 ; $syncJob ; CMSSite:active ; false ; false

[arvind-kumar_avinash]

Good luck!

[arthurjs2]

I'm afraid it did not solve our issue. The AttributeDescriptor is set but does not make any difference in our case. Sorry! Have to keep looking

[arvind-kumar_avinash]

Did you try the suggestion from given above? I will also keep this problem in mind and keep thinking of a potential solution.

[arthurjs2]

Yes thank you, even when website is inactive it gets re-activated. Trying to see what is going on!