Stopping a Tika server properly

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In order to start a Tika server that can be accessed from hosts other that localhost we know that the way to go is (say I have version 1.7 and want to run on port 9998)

java -jar tika-server-1.7-SNAPSHOT.jar -host 0.0.0.0

My question is: Is there a proper way to properly stop this server with a command or is killing the process the only way?

[`SIGTERM`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_(command)#Examples) would be my first guess. Since this basically asks the process nicely to shut down if it wants to, I would consider that safe. — Ulrich Thomas Gabor, Sep 02 '14 at 22:22
What's wrong with hitting control+c on the window where it's running? — Gagravarr, Sep 03 '14 at 10:58
@Gagravarr: Assume that you do not have access to that window (e.g. it is closed by another process / user). — pebox11, Sep 03 '14 at 11:08

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 03 '19 at 17:57

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As of October 2019 there is no programmatic way to shut it down. Documentation notes:

In the future, we may implement a gentler shutdown than we currently have.

answered Oct 03 '19 at 17:57

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 04 '22 at 04:02

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Apache tika 2.4.1 added stop() method to TikaServerCli so that it can be run with Apache Commons Daemon.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1570

https://downloads.apache.org/tika/2.4.1/CHANGES-2.4.1.txt

answered Jul 04 '22 at 04:02

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Stopping a Tika server properly

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