HOWTO: Starting and Stopping

Starting and Stopping Hiawatha Installed from Compiled Source Code

Start

Verify the location of the Hiawatha binary by executing the following command:

whereis hiawatha

To start the Hiawatha webserver, as the root user execute the following command:

/path/to/binary/hiawatha

Stop

To stop the Hiawatha webserver, first find the PID number using the following command:

cat /var/run/hiawatha.pid

Then as the root user execute the following command:

kill -15 <hiawatha PID number>

Starting and Stopping Hiawatha Installed from Debian Package

Start

To start the Hiawatha webserver, as root execute the following command:

/etc/init.d/hiawatha start

Stop

To stop the Hiawatha webserver, as root execute the following command:

/etc/init.d/hiawatha stop