# Restart Application

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/restart-application/35560
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [October 2, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/restart-application/35560 "2010-10-02T13:15:28Z")
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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: [October 2, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/restart-application/35560/2 "2010-10-02T16:56:55Z")

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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):
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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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