Maintenance Mode without using Artisan?

Question

I\'m just wondering if anyone know\'s if there\'s a way to activate maintenance mode on a laravel website without using Artisan? I don\'t have command line access to the ser

Answer 1

Laravel 4

Just wanted to put this out there for everyone on the web, all php artisan down does is touch (create) an empty file in the app/storage/meta directory called 'down'. If this file exists, then the application is in maintenance mode. That's all there is to it:

// From vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Application.php

public function isDownForMaintenance()
{
    return file_exists($this['config']['app.manifest'].'/down');
}

So if you can upload files, all you need to do is upload an empty file named 'down' to app/storage/meta.

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Laravel 5:

Down is located in storage/framework/down

Thanks ruuter.