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:

Route::get('site/shutdown', function(){     return Artisan::call('down'); });  Route::get('site/live', function(){     return Artisan::call('up'); });  

The first route is working fine. But when I call site/live the site still is shuted down. What can cause this problem ?

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.

Answer 2

I think the right answer is missing here.. You could add your route to app/http/middleware/CheckForMaintenanceMode.php

protected $except = [         //here ]; 

So It never would be off.