Laravel 5 maintenance mode turn on without artisan

Question

Is there any possibility to turn on and turn off Laravel 5 maintenance without php artisan up and down commands when my website is being hosted ?

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Answer 1

If your project is already down, you cannot call another function.

What happens after you run php artisan down is that it creates a file named down inside storage/framework. After running php artisan up the file is removed.

You can create the file manually inside storage/framework. It will down your project. When you want to take your project live again, just remove the file.