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 ?

What I\'ve done:

Answer 1

In order to make your site live again using an url, you can create a live.php file which you put in laravel's public folder and then visit http://your.domain/live.php .

In the live.php file you need something like this: (check your projects directory structure if you don't use the default public folder!)