There is no tmp/restart.txt file in Rails app

Question

I use Passenger to start my Rails app, but after I started Nginx, Rails app works fine, but I can't find any restart.txt file under tmp dir.

Is it to be created automatically by Passenger or manual? If automatically why doesn't it exist?

This is the first result when I search for "touch tmp/restart.txt". Is this a passenger-specific way of restarting your server? The command is included in the `bin/setup` script generated by Rails 4, but it seems like a very odd thing to include in the script. — Dennis, Mar 25 '15 at 21:57
This is a [Phusion Passenger](https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/admin/apache/restart_app.html#restart-txt) specific way. — cbr, Sep 16 '22 at 12:11

Maurício Linhares · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-21T19:16:33.797

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You have to create it yourself when you want the application to restart. To do that run in a command line:

touch tmp/restart.txt

edited Aug 21 '11 at 19:16

answered Aug 21 '11 at 18:54

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`touch tmp/restart.txt` in your application root directory, to be precise. – rubish Aug 21 '11 at 19:01
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@Maurício-Linhares thank u for your reply. generally is the file created by passenger itself or must touch by manual? thank you in advance. – ywenbo Aug 21 '11 at 19:02
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@ywenbo: You have to create it yourself when you want the application to restart. :) – Piskvor left the building Aug 21 '11 at 19:07
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Thank you very much. That was NOT at all obvious from all the HOW-TOs I'd been reading over the web. – Scott Eisenberg Feb 18 '14 at 19:57

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