Starting and Stopping

This section describes how to start and stop the webPDF server. This is necessary whenever you make changes to the configuration files.

When working with Windows, you have the option of starting the webPDF server as a Windows service or as a normal application.

When working with Linux, the webPDF server will run as a daemon.

When running webPDF as a container, start and stop it through the container runtime, for example on a Docker host or with Docker Compose. Kubernetes and OpenShift deployments require additional graceful shutdown settings to avoid connection errors during rolling deployments and pod termination.