how to stop confluence (from linux command line)

[Deleted user]

how I can stop (and restart) the confluence (tomcat?) from command line on Linux?

[Peter Van de Voorde]

Hi Calogero

Simply go to you confluence installation directory, find the bin directory and there you'll find several .sh scripts. Simply execute ./stop-confluence.sh or ./shutdown.sh

you can use ps -af | grep confluence to see if the process has actually been gracefully shut down.

If this didn't happen after a few minutes you can kill the process by noting down the process id you can find using the above ps command and execute kill <processid>, be aware that this will not gracefully shut down your instance.

Best regards,

Peter

[rsperafico]

Hi Calogero,

The following is the script mentioned by Peter Kramp on previous message:

#!/bin/bash
# Confluence Linux service controller script
cd "/opt/atlassian/confluence/bin"
case "$1" in
    start)
        ./start-confluence.sh
        ;;
    stop)
        ./stop-confluence.sh
        ;;
    restart)
        ./stop-confluence.sh
        sleep 5
        ./start-confluence.sh
        ;;
    status)
        PID=`ps aux | grep java | grep confluence | awk '{print $2}'`
        if test -z $PID
        then
        echo "Confluence is down..."
        else
        echo "Confluence is running... PID $PID"
        fi
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

I would kindly ask you to create a file called "start-confluence.sh" and paste the above into it. Please, replace the following:

1. Under line 3, replace "/opt/atlassian/confluence/bin" with the full path to your <confluence-install>/bin directory

Please, make sure the "start-confluence.sh" file has executable rights. In order to acchieve that, please run the following command from the directory where the file is located:

chmod a+x start-confluence.sh

In order to run the file, please use the following commands under the directory where the same is located:

# start confluence
./start-confluence.sh start

# stop confluence
./start-confluence.sh stop

# restart confluence
./start-confluence.sh restart

# confluence's status
./start-confluence.sh status

After running the command to stop, I would kindly ask you to run the command status to make sure Confluence is down. Please, notice that it might take a while to bring Confluence down, so be patience.

If even after a minute or so your Confluence instance continues on running, you can run the following command from your terminal:

# replace PID with "Confluence is running... PID $PID" given
# e.g.: "Confluence is running... PID 1234"
kill -9 1234

As Peter Van de Voorde has mentioned, this would be your last resource to stop Confluence.

Kind regards,
Rafael

[Jeffrey Jennings]

when I try to stop confluence I get this:

./stop-confluence.sh stop
executing using dedicated user
If you encounter issues starting up Confluence, please see the Installation guide at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Installation+Guide

Server startup logs are located in /project/confluence/logs/catalina.out
Using CATALINA_BASE: /project/confluence
Using CATALINA_HOME: /project/confluence
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /project/confluence/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /project/confluence/jre/
Using CLASSPATH: /project/confluence/bin/bootstrap.jar:/project/confluence/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Using CATALINA_PID: /project/confluence/work/catalina.pid
PID file found but no matching process was found. Stop aborted.
[root@ip-10-162-1-10 bin]#

[Deleted user]

Manually:

Don't use the shutdown.sh script. It is old.

Please use the stop-confluence.sh script. - it is newer (and i.m.o. much better)

Automaticly:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Start+Confluence+Automatically+on+Linux

At the page's bottom you will find a VERY simple init script from Félix Martineau