# Command line to start/stop Streaming Engine 4.8.0
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/command-line-to-start-stop-streaming-engine-4-8-0/55311
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Tags:** server-administration
**Created:** [June 3, 2020, 5:27am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/command-line-to-start-stop-streaming-engine-4-8-0/55311 "2020-06-03T05:27:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Ben\_Jun](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ben_Jun)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2020, 5:27am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/command-line-to-start-stop-streaming-engine-4-8-0/55311/1 "2020-06-03T05:27:00Z")
I am experiencing something odd when using the command line to start/stop Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0. When prompted by the installer, I specified “n” when asked “Start Wowza Streaming Engine automatically [Y/n]:”.
So when I use this command to start the service:
```auto
sudo service WowzaStreamingEngineManager start
```
Port 8088 works correctly but port 1935 is not alive. The 8088 web page says that Streaming Engine is not running.
And when I type in this additional command, everything seems to work correctly. This is the command I used on 4.7.8.
```auto
sudo systemctl restart WowzaStreamingEngine.service
```
And if I go the other way (systemctl resrtart only), I get the opposite behavior (responds to 1935 but not 8088). It looks like there are two separate systems that are starting differently. And what’s the right way to take the system down?
This is a new 4.8.0 install on a on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04.3 system, developer license, running in a cloud server.
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### Author:  [@Amara\_Graham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Amara_Graham)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/command-line-to-start-stop-streaming-engine-4-8-0/55311/2 "2020-06-03T14:16:53Z")
I’ll get this in front of our documentation team. We are working on fully transitioning away from our PDF guides, so all of this information will eventually be available via HTML.
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### Author:  [@Ben\_Jun](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ben_Jun)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2020, 8:08am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/command-line-to-start-stop-streaming-engine-4-8-0/55311/3 "2020-06-03T08:08:07Z")
Works! This answer is why I love this forum.
It would be nice if this page could be updated with your information.
[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-start-and-stop-wowza-streaming-engine-software#startServLin](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-start-and-stop-wowza-streaming-engine-software#startServLin)
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### Author:  [@Karel\_Boek](https://community.wowza.com/u/Karel_Boek)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2020, 7:41am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/command-line-to-start-stop-streaming-engine-4-8-0/55311/4 "2020-06-03T07:41:17Z")
[Systemd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd) has been around for about 10 years now, and “systemctl” to control services has since long replaced older commands like “service start” or “/etc/init.d/… start”. So my recommendation is to use “systemctl” only - even though “service … start” still works, even if it’s to safe yourself from confusion.
Wowza has two separate processes - they aren’t the same:
- WowzaStreamingEngine: this is the actual media server process (by default uses port 1935 for Streaming)
- WowzaStreamingEngineManager: this is the control website that you can open on port 8088
You must start both. Unless you don’t want to control your Wowza instance via the web-interface in which case you can leave the latter inactive.
See the [Wowza Streaming Engine Users Guide](https://www.wowza.com/resources/WowzaStreamingEngine_UsersGuide.pdf) pages 26 and 62 (although they still use “service start” there)
```auto
$ sudo systemctl start WowzaStreamingEngine
$ sudo systemctl start WowzaStreamingEngineManager
```
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### Author:  [@Rachael\_S](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rachael_S)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/command-line-to-start-stop-streaming-engine-4-8-0/55311/5 "2020-06-03T16:17:07Z")
Thanks for sharing this. The documentation is updated to reflect this implementation: [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-start-and-stop-wowza-streaming-engine-software](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-start-and-stop-wowza-streaming-engine-software)