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    Start and Stop FusionAuth

    Start and Stop FusionAuth

    If you are self-hosting FusionAuth, you may need to manually start or stop FusionAuth periodically. If you find yourself in this situation you’ll be glad you know how.

    Please note, unless you are self-hosting FusionAuth these instructions do not apply to you. FusionAuth manages and monitors instances hosted in our private cloud and will restart FusionAuth if necessary.

    It is recommended you start the FusionAuth Search service 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.

    The service names are as follows:

    • fusionauth-search

    • fusionauth-app

    Start FusionAuth
    
    sudo systemctl start fusionauth-search
    sudo systemctl start fusionauth-app
    Stop FusionAuth
    
    sudo systemctl stop fusionauth-app
    sudo systemctl stop fusionauth-search

    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 FusionAuth scripts

    Start FusionAuth services
    
    /usr/local/fusionauth/fusionauth-search/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch
    /usr/local/fusionauth/fusionauth-app/bin/start.sh
    Stop FusionAuth services
    
    /usr/local/fusionauth/fusionauth-app/bin/stop.sh

    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.

    Start FusionAuth services - Versions < 1.37.0
    
    /usr/local/fusionauth/fusionauth-search/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch
    /usr/local/fusionauth/fusionauth-app/apache-tomcat/bin/catalina.sh start
    Stop FusionAuth services - Versions < 1.37.0
    
    /usr/local/fusionauth/fusionauth-app/apache-tomcat/bin/catalina.sh stop

    Windows

    Start and Stop services using the native PowerShell scripts

    Start FusionAuth services using command line
    
    \fusionauth\fusionauth-search\elasticsearch\bin\elasticsearch.bat
    \fusionauth\fusionauth-app\bin\start.ps1
    Stop FusionAuth using command line
    
    \fusionauth\fusionauth-app\bin\stop.ps1

    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 FusionAuth services using command line - Versions < 1.37.0
    
    \fusionauth\fusionauth-search\elasticsearch\bin\elasticsearch.bat
    \fusionauth\fusionauth-app\apache-tomcat\bin\catalina.bat start
    Start FusionAuth services using command line - Versions < 1.37.0
    
    \fusionauth\fusionauth-app\apache-tomcat\bin\catalina.bat stop

    Start and Stop services using Windows Services

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

    Start Services
    
    net start FusionAuthSearch
    net start FusionAuthApp
    Stop Services
    
    net stop FusionAuthApp
    net stop FusionAuthSearch

    Uninstall and reinstall Windows Services

    In most cases you will not need to re-install the services. If you want to remove the software from your system, the following commands will un-register the services.

    Unregister Windows Services
    
    \fusionauth\fusionauth-app\bin\FusionAuthApp.exe /uninstall
    \fusionauth\fusionauth-search\elasticsearch\bin\FusionAuthSearch.exe /uninstall

    You may then optionally re-install the Windows services.

    Register Windows Services
    
    \fusionauth\fusionauth-search\elasticsearch\bin\FusionAuthSearch.exe /install
    \fusionauth\fusionauth-app\bin\FusionAuthApp.exe /install
    Unregister Windows Services - Versions < 1.37.0
    
    \fusionauth\fusionauth-app\apache-tomcat\bin\FusionAuthApp.exe /uninstall
    \fusionauth\fusionauth-search\elasticsearch\bin\FusionAuthSearch.exe /uninstall

    You may then optionally re-install the Windows services.

    Register Windows Services - Versions < 1.37.0
    
    \fusionauth\fusionauth-search\elasticsearch\bin\FusionAuthSearch.exe /install
    \fusionauth\fusionauth-app\apache-tomcat\bin\FusionAuthApp.exe /install

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