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

In laravel 5.6, the location of the "down" file has moved slightly.

It's new location is:

./storage/framework/down

Laravel 5.6 has added some contents to the "down" file, although an empty file is still effective. You get a "503 Service Unavailable" page, by default.

Simply remove the "down" file when you're finished.