# woza linux startup as a service

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/woza-linux-startup-as-a-service/34042
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [December 15, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/woza-linux-startup-as-a-service/34042 "2009-12-15T04:02:59Z")
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### Author: ![melody\_melody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@melody\_melody](https://community.wowza.com/u/melody_melody)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/woza-linux-startup-as-a-service/34042/1 "2009-12-15T04:02:59Z")

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hi,

how to configure wowza to startup as a service. i want it to start automatically at linux starting. I also searched for the file WowzaMediaServerPro-Service.conf i couldn’t find it anywhere in ther server.

So, how to crete this file? and how to configure wowza to start as a linux service taking into consideration that i configured wowza to run as wowza user not root user for server security?

thanx

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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: [December 15, 2009, 12:18pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/woza-linux-startup-as-a-service/34042/2 "2009-12-15T12:18:38Z")

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The file “WowzaMediaServerPro-Service.conf” is a Windows file, doesn’t exist in Linux install.

Depending on your flavor of Linux, you start the service one of these ways:

service WowzaMediaServer start

or

/etc/init.d/WowzaMediaServer start

Take a look at the quickstart and User Guide for more info:

[http://wowza.com/quickstart.html](http://wowza.com/quickstart.html)

[https://www.wowza.com/resources/WowzaMediaServerPro\_UsersGuide.pdf](https://www.wowza.com/resources/WowzaMediaServerPro_UsersGuide.pdf)

Richard

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### Author: ![Charlie\_Good](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/charlie_good/32/383_2.png) [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/woza-linux-startup-as-a-service/34042/3 "2009-12-15T04:32:36Z")

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If you want to start Wowza on reboot then you need to use your Linux distros init.d feature to startup Wowza at the appropriate run level. Unfortunely this feature in Linux differs based on Linux distro. If you are running a RedHat or Fedora flavor you can use the chkconfig command. The command is:

chkconfig --level 345 WowzaMediaServerPro on

Charlie