# add/change application config without reboot wowza

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/add-change-application-config-without-reboot-wowza/34222
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [May 7, 2010, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/add-change-application-config-without-reboot-wowza/34222 "2010-05-07T12:00:20Z")
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### Author: ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/add-change-application-config-without-reboot-wowza/34222/6 "2013-03-21T15:09:40Z")

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You can re-start an application in [JConsole](https://www.wowza.com/docs/quick-start-guides#jmx)

> [@Graceful restart with a live stream running?](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/35416):
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> I’ve read through the quickstart and the users manual but haven’t seen an answer to this. If I have one or more customers streaming live through my EC2 Wowza instance, and I make a change to the system config (to add another application, for example), is there any way to get Wowza to read the new config without doing a complete restart? Basically, doing the same function as the graceful restart that the Apache server offers? I’d really like to do my config updates without blowing live streams o…

Richard

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