coldfusion - restart application without restarting server?

Question

Is there a way to restart a ColdFusion application without restarting the entire server?

There are two ColdFusion applications running on a server and I only want to restart one of them.

Answer 1

If you are using Application.cfc, you can update it so that you can force a call to onApplicationStart() if something specific is passed in the url, or something similar. Simply place a check for that magic token in onRequestStart(), and call onApplicationStart() if it is.

If you are not, you can try @Marcos's suggestion. I'm not sure what ramifications that may have in your application. What I would suggest is actually renaming your application, so it starts as a new app.