Activate Laravel Maintenance Mode 5.1 No Artisan

Question

I know there’s a command php artisan down to activate the maintenance mode, but I have my application hosted and do not know how to give this command. Would you have any other way to do this? Editing some file?

Answer 1

Yes it is possible without terminal, but first I will talk about php artisan down, it is not because you have moved a project to the server that the command artisan will work. Usually we only move the project or do all installation inside the server and even the project of a client will be in a repository so we work on the basis of the composer update.

Basically you will have to install the composer and the laravel (and artisian) on the production server and download your client’s project by git (or other similar method) and the access will probably be all by SSH.

But this is ample to explain. Without delay I will explain how to do this without using the terminal, you can create two routes (preferably with authentication) and use the method Artisan::call:

Route::get('/admin/down', function()
{
    return Artisan::call('down');
});

Route::get('/admin/up', function()
{
    return Artisan::call('up');
});

By calling something like http://site/admin/down it will go into maintenance mode and use http://site/admin/up he’ll be back to normal.

• Documentation: https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/artisan#Calling-Commands-via-code
• Reference: Maintenance Mode without using Artisan?