In this section we will see how to use maintenance mode in laravel 9. We can maintenance mode command to set laravel app in maintenance mode.
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Laravel Maintenance Mode Command
To enable laravel project maintenance mode run down artisan command:
php artisan down
After running command your laravel app will be in maintenance mode like below image.
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Laravel maintenance refresh Command
You can instruct your browser to automatically refresh the page after a specified number of seconds by setting the Refresh HTTP header when invoking the down command.
php artisan down --refresh=15
For 1 minutes
php artisan down --refresh=60
Laravel maintenance retry Command
You may also provide a retry option to the down command, which will be set as the Retry-After HTTP header's value, although browsers generally ignore this header:
php artisan down --retry=60
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Laravel Bypassing Maintenance Mode
To allow maintenance mode to be bypassed using a secret token, you may set up a maintenance mode bypass token with the secret option.
php artisan down --secret="1630542a-246b-4b66-afa1-dd72a4c43515"
After placing the application in maintenance mode, you may navigate to the application URL matching this token and Laravel will issue a maintenance mode bypass cookie to your browser:
In local host project.
http://127.0.0.1:8000/1630542a-246b-4b66-afa1-dd72a4c43515
In live project.
https://example.com/1630542a-246b-4b66-afa1-dd72a4c43515
Laravel 9 Disabling Maintenance Mode
To disable laravel maintenance mode use artisan up commad.
php artisan up
