How to put Laravel applications in maintenance mode ?
To put Laravel application in maintenance mode you can use the Artisan command-line tool. Here’s how to do it:
Enabling Maintenance Mode
1. Open your terminal.
2. Navigate to your Laravel project directory.
3. Run the following command:
php artisan downThis command will put your application into maintenance mode.
Customizing the Maintenance mode message
You can also specify a message to be displayed on the maintenance page by passing the --message option to the down command. For example:
php artisan down --message="We'll be back soon!"Allowing specific IP Addresses
If you want to access the application while it’s in maintenance mode , you can allow specific IP addresses:
php artisan down --allow=123.456.789.000Disabling Maintenance Mode
To bring your application back online, run:
php artisan upEnable Maintenance Mode: php artisan down
Customize Message: php artisan down --message="Custom Message"
Allow IP: php artisan down --allow=YOUR_IP
Disable Maintenance Mode: php artisan up
This is how you can effectively manage maintenance mode in a Laravel application.