Start and Stop FusionAuth

If you are using the FusionAuth server version, may need to manually start or stop FusionAuth periodically. If you find yourself in this situation you’ll be glad you know how.

Unless you are hosting and managing FusionAuth these instructions do not apply to you. FusionAuth manages and monitors instances hosted in our private cloud and will restart FusionAuth if necessary.

Note that you MUST start the FusionAuth Search before starting the FusionAuth App service. You should also shutdown the Search Engine last. FusionAuth utilizes the Search Engine and database for persisting and retrieving users.

The following examples will make the assumption that all of the services are running on the same server. Based upon how you have installed FusionAuth you may or may not have all of the services running on the same server.

The macOS and Windows instructions assume an installation directory of /usr/local/fusionauth and \fusionauth respectively. Please adjust to your specific installation directory. We’ll refer to this directory as FUSIONAUTH_HOME.

Linux

When you install FusionAuth using our Debian or RPM packages a service is registered. It is recommended you utilize these services to start and stop FusionAuth. If the version of Linux your using supports systemd you may use the systemctl command as well to manage services.

The service names are as follows:

fusionauth-search
fusionauth-app

Start FusionAuth

sudo service fusionauth-search start
sudo service fusionauth-app start

Stop FusionAuth

sudo service fusionauth-app stop
sudo service fusionauth-search stop

If you’d like to use the systemctl command instead, the syntax is similar to the service command. For example, to check the status, stop and then start the FusionAuth App service using the systemctl command

Check Status, then Stop and Start FusionAuth App

systemctl status fusionauth-app.service
systemctl stop fusionauth-app.service
systemctl start fusionauth-app.service

If you’d prefer to use the native Elastic and Tomcat scripts you may follow the macOS instructions, the same scripts may be executed on Linux.

macOS

Start and Stop services using the native Elastic and Tomcat scripts

Start FusionAuth

/usr/local/fusionauth/fusionauth-search/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch
/usr/local/fusionauth/fusionauth-app/apache-tomcat/bin/catalina.sh start

Stop FusionAuth

/usr/local/fusionauth/fusionauth-app/apache-tomcat/bin/catalina.sh stop

Elasticsearch should be stopped last. If you started Elasticsearch using the elasticsearch script then you may simply kill the terminal where the service is running to initiate shutdown.

Windows

Start and Stop services using the native Elastic and Tomcat scripts

Start CleanSpeak

\fusionauth\fusionauth-search\elasticsearch\bin\elasticsearch.bat
\fusionauth\fusionauth-app\apache-tomcat\bin\catalina.bat start

Stop FusionAuth

\fusionauth\fusionauth-app\apache-tomcat\bin\catalina.bat stop

Elasticsearch should be stopped last. If you started Elasticsearch using the elasticsearch.bat script then you may simply close the command window where the service is running to initiate shutdown.

Start and Stop services using Windows Services

We also provide support for running FusionAuth as a Windows service.

\fusionauth\fusionauth-search\elasticsearch\bin\FusionAuthSearch.exe /install
\fusionauth\fusionauth-app\apache-tomcat\bin\FusionAuthApp.exe /install

Unregister Windows Services

\fusionauth\fusionauth-app\apache-tomcat\bin\FusionAuthApp.exe /uninstall
\fusionauth\fusionauth-search\elasticsearch\bin\FusionAuthSearch.exe /uninstall

Start Services

net start FusionAuthSearch
net start FusionAuthApp

Stop Services

net stop FusionAuthApp
net stop FusionAuthSearch

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