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 server so I can't use Artisan without first updating it on my local site and then push the changes to the server. Is there maybe a master Route that I can add that will deny access to any other routes?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can just call artisan from your application:

Artisan::call('down');  Artisan::call('up'); 

But since you'll not have access to get your app up because it's down. You can create the functionality yourself:

A route for shut it down, user must be authenticated to do this:

Route::group(array('before' => 'auth'), function() {      Route::get('shut/the/application/down', function()      {         touch(storage_path().'/meta/my.down');     });  }); 

A route to bring it back up:

Route::get('bring/the/application/back/up', function()  {     @unlink(storage_path().'/meta/my.down'); }); 

A filter to check if it's up:

Route::filter('applicationIsUp', function() {     if (file_exists($this['path.storage'].'/meta/my.down'))     {         return Redirect::to('site/is/down');     } }); 

A route to bring it back up:

Route::get('bring/the/application/back/up', function()  {     @unlink(storage_path().'/meta/my.down'); }); 

A route to show a pretty view when your site is down

Route::get('site/is/down', function()  {     return View::make('views.site.down'); });