Managing the service

Last published at: August 12th, 2025

Plauti Server runs as a service. Read more about (re)starting, stopping, and verifying the service on Windows or Linux below.

 

Plauti Server on Windows

Plauti Server runs as a Windows service. You will need to use the command line with administrator rights to manage it. Right-click Command Prompt or PowerShell and select Run as Administrator.

Starting the service

In your administrator command line, run the following command:
sc start plauti-server

Alternatively, use net start plauti-serv.

Verifying the service

After starting the service, wait a few seconds for it to initialize. Then check its status with the following command:
sc query plauti-server
In the results, at ‘State’, it should say “4  RUNNING”.

Stopping the service

To stop Plauti Server, run the following command:

sc stop plauti-server

or

net stop plauti-server

Restarting the service

First stop the service, then start it again.

sc stop plauti-server 
sc start plauti-server

or

net stop plauti-server 
net start plauti-server

Plauti Server on Linux

Plauti Server is managed as a ‘systemd’ service.

Starting the service for the first time

When starting the service for the first time after installation and configuration, it should not only be Started, but Enabled as well. After this the server needs to be restarted.
This will ensure that Plauti Server will start automatically upon system booting.

  1. Start the service:
    sudo systemctl start plauti-server
  2. Enable the service:
    sudo systemctl enable plauti-server
  3. Then restart.

Verifying the service

To verify that the service is running correctly, use the ‘status’ command:

sudo systemctl status plauti-server

It should return “active (running)”.

Press q to exit the status view.

Stopping the service

To stop the service, run the following command:

sudo systemctl stop plauti-server

Restarting the service

To restart the service, for example after changing the configuration:

sudo systemctl restart plauti-server