Sometimes we need to down our site for maintenance purposes. Luckily laravel gives the way to turn on maintenance mood with a command.

php artisan down

we can bypass the website with a secret key.

php artisan down --secret="abc123xyz"

and after that, we can access the site with the following URL.

https://yourdomain.com/abc123xyz

You also can redirect the user to a specific error page while the Maintenance mood on.

php artisan down --redirect=/

Custom Page Setup while Laravel Maintenance Mode on

• First of all, you have to create a custom blade page on your view directory.
  example: maintenance.blade.php

• After that run this on Terminal
  

php artisan down --render="maintenance"

• If your blade page is placed in a directory then use “::“ before the blade name. example:

php artisan down --render="directoryName::maintenance"