How to restart Jenkins in Windows

Question

Not able to restart Jenkins manually. Already tried all below ways:

1. http://localhost:8080/safeRestart
   Error message: Jenkins cannot restart itself as currently configured.

2. Manage Jenkins → Restart Safely Plugin.
   Error message: Jenkins cannot restart itself as currently configured.

3. Not able to find any Jenkins Service in services.msc.

4. Navigate to jenkins-cli directory in CMD mode

   java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://[jenkins-server]/ restart
   

   See below screenshot for error message:

   

Answer 1

Use command line to stop and start

net stop jenkins
net start jenkins

Answer 2

Simply just do one thing.To restart Jenkins manually, you can use either of the following commands on Windows platform.

• Clean the "AppData\Local\Temp" folder.
• In search of windows type %temp%. then clean the folder.

Then try restarting Jenkins.

• use java -jar jenkins.war --httpPort=8080 in cmd fo windows.
• otherwise change the Port number.
• java -jar jenkins.war --httpPort=8090

It worked for me!