# Restart a WordPress site’s services

Check the parts a WordPress site runs on, restart PHP, the web server, the database or Redis, fix file permissions, update their images, and stop or start the site.

## Before you start

- A WordPress site in Nuvlo.
- Permission to manage sites. Viewers see the states but can’t use the buttons.

## Step 1: Open the Services card

Open the site and click the **Settings** tab. The **Services** card lists what the site runs on, each with its state.

![Services card with PHP, Web server, Database and Redis rows, plus All services, File permissions, Images and Stop site](https://app.nuvlo.dev/docs/shots/wordpress-services--card.webp)

| Service | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| **PHP** | Runs WordPress. Restart it when pages show “Bad gateway” or never finish loading. On OpenLiteSpeed sites this row is **PHP and LiteSpeed** and there is no separate web server row. |
| **Web server** | Receives each request, serves cached pages and files, and hands the rest to PHP. |
| **Database** | Stores posts, pages, users and settings. |
| **Redis** | Keeps WordPress data in memory so pages build faster. |

Click **Check status** to read the states again. A state can be **Running**, **Starting**, **Not responding**, **Keeps crashing**, **Stopped**, **Not started** or **Missing**.

## Step 2: Restart a service

Click **Restart PHP**, **Restart web server**, **Restart database** or **Restart Redis**. A stopped service shows **Start** instead. Confirm in the dialog, which says what visitors notice:

- PHP: an error for a few seconds.
- Web server: dropped requests for a second or two.
- Database: a database error for up to half a minute.
- Redis: slower pages for a moment while the cache fills again.

Nuvlo then checks that the site answers again. If it still fails, the card shows the service’s log below the list.

To restart everything together, click **Restart all**. The site is offline for up to a minute.

![Restart PHP confirmation dialog](https://app.nuvlo.dev/docs/shots/wordpress-services--restart-dialog.webp)

## Step 3: Restart PHP from Overview

When the site answers with a server error or not at all, the **Overview** tab shows **Restart PHP** under the site’s state. It does the same as the button on the **Services** card.

## Step 4: Fix file permissions

If uploads, updates or plugin installs fail with “could not write” or “permission denied”, click **Fix permissions**. Nuvlo gives WordPress back control of its files and says how many it fixed.

## Step 5: Update the images

Click **Update images** to switch to the newest builds of the same PHP, web server, database and Redis versions, with security fixes. The site is offline for a few seconds.

If the site stops working on the new images, Nuvlo goes back to the current ones and shows why. To change the PHP version instead, see [Change PHP settings](https://app.nuvlo.dev/docs/wordpress-php-settings).

## Step 6: Stop or start the site

Click **Stop site** and confirm to take the site offline until you start it again. Files and the database are kept.

![Stop this site? confirmation dialog with Cancel and Stop site](https://app.nuvlo.dev/docs/shots/wordpress-services--stop-dialog.webp)

- Visitors can’t reach the site. **Overview** shows **Stopped**.
- Scheduled backups and security scans skip the site.
- Manual backups, scans and restores wait until you start it.

To bring it back, click **Start site** in the site’s header or on the **Services** card.

## When the buttons are refused

Nuvlo refuses these actions while a backup of the site runs, and while it restores, copies or changes the domain of the site. Try again when that has finished.

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Source: https://app.nuvlo.dev/docs/wordpress-services