Maintenance Mode

If you want to enable maintenance mode on your page, execute the down Artisan command:

php artisan down

Then people would see default 503 status page.

You may also provide flags, in Laravel 8:

• the path the user should be redirected to
• the view that should be prerendered
• secret phrase to bypass maintenance mode
• retry page reload every X seconds

php artisan down --redirect="/" --render="errors::503" --secret="1630542a-246b-4b66-afa1-dd72a4c43515" --retry=60

Before Laravel 8:

• message that would be shown
• retry page reload every X seconds
• still allow the access to some IP address

php artisan down --message="Upgrading Database" --retry=60 --allow=127.0.0.1

When you've done the maintenance work, just run:

php artisan up