Maintenance Mode

While most updates of IXP Manager are quick, some may be more involved with schema updates or complicated migration steps. In these cases it's useful and advisable to put IXP Manager in maintenance mode.

Maintenance mode is now handled by Laravel's built in tool for this. You can review their own documentation for this for a complete description of the feature.

A maintenance mode check is included in the default middleware stack for your application. If the application is in maintenance mode, a MaintenanceModeException will be thrown with a status code of 503. This message simply states Service Unavailable.

To enable maintenance mode, simply execute the down Artisan command:

php artisan down

You may instead choose to display a more complete maintenance mode page. You can use skinning to customize or completely replace the included page. If set, the retry value will be set as the Retry-After HTTP header's value::

php artisan down --render=errors::maintenance --retry=60

To disable maintenance mode, use the up command::

php artisan up