# Restart only the MediaCache

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/restart-only-the-mediacache/41371>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [May 17, 2014, 9:01am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/restart-only-the-mediacache/41371 "2014-05-17T09:01:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Florida\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Florida\_Stream](https://community.wowza.com/u/Florida_Stream)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2014, 9:01am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/restart-only-the-mediacache/41371/1 "2014-05-17T09:01:46Z")

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It would be great if it was possible to restart only the MediaCache, instead of all the wowza server to reload a configuration in MediaCache.

As in live applications.

MediaCache (restart the entire server)

![](http://i.imgur.com/HS9uRox.png)

Applications (restart only the app)

![](http://i.imgur.com/iM6xbDn.png)

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**Author:** ![Matt\_Young](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/matt_young/32/389_2.png) [@Matt\_Young](https://community.wowza.com/u/Matt_Young)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 5:00am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/restart-only-the-mediacache/41371/2 "2014-05-19T05:00:57Z")

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There isn’t really a way to do this currently. You may be able to write a wrapper to MediaCache (as a separate module) to handle the situation but would require some custom work.