server restart from control panel

I agree, it would be good to have a way to restart apps via the control panel. That's something we're planning to add to a future version of the panel, but we don't have an ETA yet.

In the meantime, you can use a simple CGI script to restart your app via the web.

First, create a static/cgi/php app in the control panel. You can name the app whatever you want.

Add password protection to the new app directory by following our instructions: Password Protecting a Directory with a Static/CGI/PHP App

Create a file named "restart.py" in your new app directory with the following contents (changing "you" and "your_app" to your username and app name respectively) :

#!/usr/local/bin/python2.7

import os, time

os.system("/home/you/webapps/your_app/apache2/bin/restart")

time.sleep(3)

print "Content-Type: text/plain"
print
print "Your app has been restarted."

Next, make the script executable: chmod 711 restart.py

Finally, add the static/cgi/php app to a site.

Once that's all done, you can restart your app by going to whatever URL you assigned to the static/cgi/php app, followed by the script name, eg http://domain.com/restart.py

Hope that helps!