How to Put Laravel Into Maintenance Mode

From the command line, run the following Artisan command to put your Laravel application into maintenance mode.

php artisan down

Once this completes, anyone visiting your application will be served with a 503 status page.

To bring your application out of maintenance mode, you guessed it! Run the up command.

php artisan up

Here are some other cool things you're able to do with maintenance mode in Laravel.

Automatic refreshing¶

If you'd like to instruct visitor's browsers to automatically refresh, you can pass in the refresh flag and an amount of seconds for the refresh interval.

This is a great feature, since you'll probably want to welcome the user straight back into your application when it comes out of maintenance mode.

php artisan down --refresh=20

The above example will refresh every 20 seconds.

Bypassing maintenance mode¶

If you personally still need to access your site while it's in maintenance mode, use the secret flag.

php artisan down --secret="seqG8RL28tcUAIt4uQDyqOeGbIp7K5XE"

Choose any value here, and then access your application's URL like this, using the secret token you gave.

https://example.com/seqG8RL28tcUAIt4uQDyqOeGbIp7K5XE

If you prefer for Laravel to generate a token for you, that's covered too!

php artisan down --with-secret

Customising the maintenance mode view¶

Like all status pages in Laravel, you can customise the 503 page that's rendered when your application is in maintenance mode.

Create a 503.blade.php file at resources/views/errors/503.blade.php and fill it in with the content you'd like the user to see. This page will then be rendered instead of the default.