Disable registration in built-in registration Laravel 5.3

Does this help

http://blog.phakeapps.com/2016/04/01/disable-signup-in-laravels-built-in-auth-driver/

Laravel version 5.3.9 have not AuthController

Maybe if you in this file

https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/master/app/Http/Controllers/Auth/RegisterController.php

you remove trait RegistersUsers

// use RegistersUsers;

Method App\Http\Controllers\Auth\RegisterController::showRegistrationForm() does not exist

I disable Auth::routes()

and added

// Login Routes...
    Route::get('login', ['as' => 'login', 'uses' => 'Auth\LoginController@showLoginForm']);
    Route::post('login', ['as' => 'login.post', 'uses' => 'Auth\LoginController@login']);
    Route::post('logout', ['as' => 'logout', 'uses' => 'Auth\LoginController@logout']);

// Registration Routes...
//    Route::get('register', ['as' => 'register', 'uses' => 'Auth\RegisterController@showRegistrationForm']);
//    Route::post('register', ['as' => 'register.post', 'uses' => 'Auth\RegisterController@register']);

// Password Reset Routes...
    Route::get('password/reset', ['as' => 'password.reset', 'uses' => 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController@showLinkRequestForm']);
    Route::post('password/email', ['as' => 'password.email', 'uses' => 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController@sendResetLinkEmail']);
    Route::get('password/reset/{token}', ['as' => 'password.reset.token', 'uses' => 'Auth\ResetPasswordController@showResetForm']);
    Route::post('password/reset', ['as' => 'password.reset.post', 'uses' => 'Auth\ResetPasswordController@reset']);
});

@m.donicova in your Auth\RegisterController.php file override the showRegistrationForm() with the following code.

protected function showRegistrationForm()
    {
        return redirect()->to('login')->with('warning', 'Registration is disabled.');
    }

now when the url /register is envoked it will redirect to the login page and display a warning message. of course, you can redirect it to where ever you want and change the message to whatever you want. this should work on 5.3 and 5.4.

I did this by changing the constructor in Auth\RegisterController.php From:

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware('guest');
    }

to:

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware('auth');
    }

This way you can create new users if you want, but you have to be logged in first.

@erellsworth Fantastic simple solution! Thank you!

@erellsworth Great solution!

@erellsworth 's answer is so good, it should be in the docs!

There is an easier way ... try this: https://blackbits.io/blog/how-to-disable-user-registration-in-laravel