Question Programmatically restart Node applications on Plesk

[Hunter75]

We are using Plesk to host our production services.

Basically, when I deploy the application to Plesk using Git, I need to press Restart application within the Node page on Plesk GUI and that works well.

But in some cases I need to do that pragmatically, I need to automatically restart Node service. Does Plesk offer such functionality? Maybe, some kind of API that listens to calls or else within Linux shell itself.

 

[futureweb]

@Sebahat.hadzhi - we are facing the same problem. Do you maybe have a recommendation regarding the best approach to handle this?

 

[Sebahat.hadzhi]

Hello, @futureweb . There is no native way to restart the application through the command line. The workaround I can suggest is to try the following:

1. Connect to the server via SSH
   
   
2. Create the restart.txt file at the application's tmp folder:
   
   sudo -u jdoe -g psacln touch /var/www/vhosts/example.com/tmp/restart.txt
   
   * jdoe is to be replaced with the subscription's system user. Can be checked at (Domains > example.com > Web Hosting Access)
   
   Meanwhile, the path should be checked on your end as it depends on the application's location.