How to disable registration new users in Laravel

Question

I\'m using Laravel (v5).

I need one user and I\'ve already registered that. Now I want to disable registration for new users. Of course, I need the login form to wor

Answer 1

The following method works great:

Copy all the routes from /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php and paste it into web.php and comment out or delete Auth::routes().

Then setup a conditional to enable and disable registration from .env. Duplicate the 503.blade.php file in views/errors and create a 403 forbidden or whatever you like.

Add ALLOW_USER_REGISTRATION= to .env and control user registration by setting its value to true or false.

Now you have full control of routes and Vendor files remain untouched.

web.php

//Auth::routes();

// Authentication Routes...
Route::get('login', 'Auth\LoginController@showLoginForm')->name('login');
Route::post('login', 'Auth\LoginController@login');
Route::post('logout', 'Auth\LoginController@logout')->name('logout');

// Registration Routes...
if (env('ALLOW_USER_REGISTRATION', true))
{
    Route::get('register', 'Auth\RegisterController@showRegistrationForm')->name('register');
    Route::post('register', 'Auth\RegisterController@register');
}
else
{
    Route::match(['get','post'], 'register', function () {
        return view('errors.403');
    })->name('register');
}

// Password Reset Routes...
Route::get('password/reset', 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController@showLinkRequestForm')->name('password.request');
Route::post('password/email', 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController@sendResetLinkEmail')->name('password.email');
Route::get('password/reset/{token}', 'Auth\ResetPasswordController@showResetForm')->name('password.reset');
Route::post('password/reset', 'Auth\ResetPasswordController@reset');

This is a combination of some previous answers notably Rafal G. and Daniel Centore.