# Restart Application **URL:** \ **Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\ **Created:** [October 2, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/restart-application/35560 "2010-10-02T13:15:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Adriano\_Maciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Adriano\_Maciel](https://community.wowza.com/u/Adriano_Maciel)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/restart-application/35560/1 "2010-10-02T13:15:28Z")
I have a simple situation, but knowing I’m not solve: ( I have an instance called LIVE (example) and inside it got the file application.xml. Every time I make a change in application.xml I have to give a restart on Wowza server? How do I restart the instance only “live” and not have to restart Wowza? Regards, Sysber ---
**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:** [October 2, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/restart-application/35560/2 "2010-10-02T16:56:55Z")
You can restart an application with JConsole. See these posts: [https://www.wowza.com/quickstart\_2\_1\_2.html#jconsole](https://www.wowza.com/quickstart_2_1_2.html#jconsole) > [@Graceful restart with a live stream running?](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/35416): > > 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