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

The real correct answer to question is above provided by Antonio.

You can just call artisan from your application:

Artisan::call('down');

Artisan::call('up');

Laravel 5+

Since middleware(s) were introduced in Laravel 5, I will cover how I do it in Laravel 5.3 application.

Create brand new middleware

First lets create new middleware $php artisan make:middleware CheckForMaintenanceMode

app = $app;
    }

    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        if ($this->app->isDownForMaintenance() && !$this->isBackendRequest($request)) {
            $data = json_decode(file_get_contents($this->app->storagePath() . '/framework/down'), true);

            throw new MaintenanceModeException($data['time'], $data['retry'], $data['message']);
        }

        return $next($request);
    }

    private function isBackendRequest($request)
    {
        return ($request->is('admin/*') or $request->is('login'));
    }
}

Note: function isBackendRequest() which returns true or false if we are either in admin prefix (true) or trying to login (true) or anything else (false)

replace global middleware

Open up App/Http/Kernel.php and rewrite foundations middleware with our new middleware

protected $middleware = [
    \App\Http\Middleware\CheckForMaintenanceMode::class,
];

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If application is in maintenance mode (down) we can still access login page or any admin/* page.

Route::group(['middleware' => 'auth', 'prefix' => 'admin'], function () { 
    //admin routes
});