title: How to put your Laravel application in maintenance mode and still allow a certain user?
body: <p>Somewhere in my <code>app/start/global.php</code> I have </p>
  
  <pre><code>App::down(function()
  {
      return Response::make("Be right back!", 503);
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I did </p>
  
  <p><code>php artisan down</code> in my cmd my whole site will disable.</p>
  
  <p>I am afraid that I will disables all the visitors <code>including</code> admins. </p>
  
  <p>I don't want that. I still want to allow myself in there because I have to create/upload some contents onto my site.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to allow the access to my self and other admin users, but not the clients ? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>