Laravel 4: php artisan down not defined

Question

I've updated my Laravel installation with the following commands today (which is a few days after Laravel 4's release date):

php composer self-update
php composer update

You can have a look at my composer.json file here: http://paste.laravel.com/umX

In the Docs I've found out about the Maintenance Mode... (http://laravel.com/docs/configuration#maintenance-mode) Trying to use it returns:

[InvalidArgumentException]      
Command "down" is not defined.

Command I've entered in the terminal for this exception:

php artisan down

My current version:

php artisan --version
Laravel Framework version 4.0.0

Any ideas? Did i miss something, am I still on some old version possibly?

Thanks in advance and best regards, Martin.

Answer 1

The first thing I suggest you do is just run php artisan list to get a list of all the available commands. If the up and down commands aren't listed then you probably aren't fully updated.

If you have a bootstrap/compiled.php file try deleting it. Also make sure you pull the latest changes in from the laravel/laravel GitHub repository to update your application skeleton.

Once you've done the above you can again check for the existence of the commands by running php artisan list.

Answer 2

The fix for me was to update the 'providers' array in ./app/config/app.php. I thought I was doing a pretty good job of manually updating the L4 skeleton near the end of the beta period, but there was a minor change in that array (not sure which line) that allowed the 'down' command to finally appear in artisan.

Answer 3

In app/start/global.php (or app/start/artisan.php), you need:

App::down(function() { return Response::make("Be right back!", 503); });

don't you?

Perhaps you could also try updating laravel via composer "composer update" in CLI.

Answer 4

I've just installed a clean Laravel 4 clone and tryed the maintenance mode with it.

Everything's working as supposed...

I've also compared the composer.json files + I'm pretty sure I've done nothing wrong updating to the stable release version even thought my app/start/* php-files remain unchanged.

Summary:

Composer seems to not override the php files in app/start/* which would be needed in order to get the maintenance mode working correctly. Probably there are even more files not being updated. This also makes a lot of sense, since you could have done some important customizations to your application there.

Correct me if I'm wrong... I'll start importing my package into a clean install thought. Don't want to run into more trouble due to this.

Best Regards, Martin.