Kong Community Edition (KongCE) - Start Stop Restart Kong

by
Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: January 12 2021
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If Kong is running on docker, refer to Kong - Docker container command line for the steps on how to issue commands in the Kong Docker container.
Use the ps command to determine if Kong is running. If there are Kong processes, like this, Kong is running.
ps -ef | grep -i kong
. . .
1 kong 0:00 nginx: master process /usr/local/openresty/nginx/sbin/nginx -p /usr/local/kong -c nginx.conf
22 kong 48:05 nginx: worker process
23 kong 2:12 nginx: worker process
24 kong 2:06 nginx: worker process
25 kong 14:27 nginx: worker process
50 kong 0:00 sh
66 kong 0:00 ps -ef
67 kong 0:00 grep -i kong
Use the kong stop command to stop Kong.
kong stop -c /path/to/kong.conf
Use the kong start command to start Kong.
kong start -c /path/to/kong.conf
Use the kong restart command to restart Kong.
kong restart -c /path/to/kong.conf
Use the kong reload command to reload Kong.
kong reload -c /path/to/kong.conf
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