Maintenance Mode without using Artisan?
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 … Read more