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    Start and Stop FusionAuth

    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.

    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 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.

    Register Windows Services
    \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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