Laravel 8 enable maintenance mode permanently - laravel

Question

I am using this command to enable maintenance mode php artisan down --secret="1630542a-246b-4b66-afa1-dd72a4c43515.
And then, I access my site with exapmple.com/1630542a-246b-4b66-afa1-dd72a4c43515, to bypass the maintenance mode.
However, it seems to only work for one browsing session. That is, when I restart the computer, the maintenance cookie seems to be deleted and my site shows the 503 error.
So, how can I set an infinity lifetime maintenance cookie?

Answer 1

1. Override Create method from MaintenanceModeBypassCookie class. For this we will create a new file /App/Http/MaintenanceModeByoassCookie.php where we will include the following:
<?php
namespace App\Http;
use Illuminate\Support\Carbon;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Cookie;
class MaintenanceModeBypassCookie extends \Illuminate\Foundation\Http\MaintenanceModeBypassCookie
{
/**
* Create a new maintenance mode bypass cookie.
*
* #param string $key
* #return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Cookie
*/
public static function create(string $key)
{
$expiresAt = Carbon::now()->addHours(1000);//Time expiration for your cookie
return new Cookie('laravel_maintenance', base64_encode(json_encode([
'expires_at' => $expiresAt->getTimestamp(),
'mac' => hash_hmac('sha256', $expiresAt->getTimestamp(), $key),
])), $expiresAt);
}
}
Note where we are overriding the expiration time for the cookie.
2. Add the following code in your /App/Http/Middleware/CheckForMaintenanceMode.php in order to override bypassResponse method:
/**
* #override
* Redirect the user back to the root of the application with a maintenance mode bypass cookie.
*
* #param string $secret
* #return \Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse
*/
protected function bypassResponse(string $secret)
{
return redirect('/')->withCookie(
\App\Http\MaintenanceModeBypassCookie::create($secret)
);
}