Starting and Stopping the Tomcat Service

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Starting and Stopping the Tomcat Service

The Express Server Manager and ExpressZip applications are hosted by the LizardTech Express Server Tomcat service. Tomcat is a web server and servlet container that hosts web applications.

Starting and Stopping Tomcat on Windows

On Windows, Tomcat runs as a service called the LizardTech Express Server Tomcat service, or lttomcat8. To restart the service, complete the following steps:

Open the Windows Services utility.
Find the LizardTech Express Server Tomcat service.
Right-click on the service and click Start or Stop.

Starting and Stopping Tomcat on Linux

On Linux, Tomcat runs as a daemon called lttomd. To restart the daemon, complete the following steps:

Open a terminal.
Run one of the following commands with root permissions:
```
/etc/init.d/lttomd start
```
OR
```
/etc/init.d/lttomd stop
```