If your distribution does not come with a prepackaged Traffic Server, please refer to our wiki for build instructions

After you have installed Traffic Server on your system, you can do any of the following:

Start Traffic Server

To start Traffic Server manually, issue the trafficserver command, passing in the attribute start. This command starts all the processes that work together to process Traffic Server requests as well as manage, control, and monitor the health of the Traffic Server system.

To run the trafficserver start command, e.g.:

    ./trafficserver start

Start Traffic Line

Traffic Line provides a quick way of viewing Traffic Server statistics and configuring the Traffic Server system via command-line interface. To execute individual commands or script multiple commands, refer to Traffic Line Commands.

Traffic Line commands take the following form:

 ./traffic_line -command argument

For a list of traffic_line commands, enter:

 ./traffic_line -h

Start Traffic Shell

Traffic Shell is a command-line tool that enables you to monitor and configure Traffic Server; it can be used instead of Traffic Line. Traffic Server provides documentation for Traffic Shell in the form of manual (man) pages.

./start_traffic_shell

The man page describes how to use Traffic Shell, how to obtain a list of available commands, and how to obtain documentation about each command.

man traffic_shell

Stop Traffic Server

To stop Traffic Server, always use the trafficserver command, passing in the attribute stop. This command stops all the Traffic Server processes (traffic_manager, traffic_server, and traffic_cop). Do not manually stop processes, as this can lead to unpredictable results.

./trafficserver stop