Queues for on maintenance sites

[ezerw]

Hello 👋

Just wanted to say that it could be nice if the Queues documentation mentioned somewhere that if the site is under maintenance (php artisan down) the jobs are not processed.

Basically, I have a site that runs 2 environments in the same VPS and I spent around 3 hours trying to figure out why one environment (test) was processing the jobs fine and the other not considering they both share almost the same configuration in supervisor.

After trying:

• Use different Redis DB for each environment
• Make sure APP_NAME is unique for each
• Use Database queue connection for test and Redis for prod
• Tweaked tons of times Supervisor config

And a few others I don't remember I ended up reading the php artisan queue:work help which mentions that you need to add --force to run even in maintenance mode.

Sorry and please ignore if it's mentioned already or if there is a doc I missed 🙏

[vaites]

For those of you who get here, this has already been documented: https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/queues#maintenance-mode-queues