Services

The Services page is Rezure's home screen: every process your projects depend on, with a status, a version, its ports, and Start/Stop/Restart. Nothing on it starts by itself: not when Rezure opens, and not when Windows signs in. You decide what runs.

The services

Service	What it does	Port	Where it comes from
Nginx	Web server for every project	80	Ships with the installer
PHP	Runs PHP for projects on the global version, as 4 workers	9100–9103	Ships with the installer (PHP 8.3); more versions on the Switch page
PHP x.y.z	One row per extra version that a project is pinned to	9110–9113, 9120–9123, …	Appears when you pin a project
MariaDB / MySQL	The local MySQL-family database. The row shows whichever engine the active data directory profile uses	3306	See MariaDB & MySQL
PostgreSQL	Local PostgreSQL server	5432	Install on its row (newest version), or the Switch page. See PostgreSQL
SQL Server LocalDB	Local SQL Server, reached as (localdb)\Rezure	named pipe, plus a bridge on 14330	Microsoft installer, with a license prompt. See SQL Server
Mailpit	Catches outgoing mail	1025 (SMTP), 8025 (inbox)	Install on its row. See Mailpit

Every service except Nginx listens on 127.0.0.1 only. Nginx listens on all interfaces on port 80, so other devices on your network could reach your sites if Windows Firewall lets them. The full list is on Ports.

Dev servers for Vite, Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, and Node projects aren't on this page, and Start all never starts them. Each is started from the Projects page, with Open or in Dev servers. See Dev Servers.

Start, stop, restart

Each row has its own Start or Stop button and a Restart icon. Restart is a stop followed by a start.

The toolbar at the top acts on the whole page at once:

• Start all starts every listed service that is stopped and installed. Rows that show Not installed are skipped.
• Restart all restarts every running service.
• Stop all stops everything that's running.

They run in parallel, and the rows update as each service comes up. If one service fails during Start all, its row just stays Stopped without an error message; click that row's own Start to see the reason.

What a row shows

• Status: Running, Stopped, Starting…, Stopping…, or Not installed.
• Version and port pills. PHP shows its port range and worker count, for example :9100–9103 · 4/4 workers; Mailpit shows both of its ports.
• CPU: a small sparkline and a percentage while the service runs (in a wide enough window). It's a snapshot taken whenever the page refreshes its list, after an action for example, not a live meter.
• Open: on the Mailpit row while it runs, opens the inbox at http://127.0.0.1:8025.
• Toggle logs: the last 20 lines of that service's output, right under the row. The Logs page has the full combined view.

Installing from a row

Rows for services that one download makes usable show Install instead of Start: Nginx, Mailpit, and PostgreSQL. While it works, the button shows Downloading… N%, Verifying…, Extracting…, then Installing…. Every download is checked against a published checksum before it's used.

SQL Server LocalDB is a Microsoft installer, so its Install first asks you to accept Microsoft's license and then shows one Windows administrator prompt. See SQL Server.

PHP versions and Node.js are added on the Switch page instead.

How stopping works

• Nginx and PHP are stopped immediately.
• Databases (MariaDB/MySQL and PostgreSQL) are asked to shut down cleanly, so they can close their data files. Rezure waits up to two minutes before it forces them.

Force stop

When a service won't respond, open More actions (⋮) on its row and choose Force stop. That kills the process at once. For a database Rezure asks first, because the database never gets to close its data directory and has to run crash recovery on the next start. Use Stop unless it's genuinely stuck.

How long a database may take to start

A database row stays on Starting… until the server actually accepts connections. That's usually seconds, but a large data directory that needs recovery can take longer. Rezure keeps waiting as long as the server keeps writing log output, and only gives up after 90 seconds of silence ("the server stopped responding") or 15 minutes in total.

When a service crashes

PHP restarts itself. Rezure checks its workers every two seconds and restarts one that died, waiting 1, 2, 5, 10, then 30 seconds between attempts. While that's happening the worker count turns amber ("Some workers stopped unexpectedly and are being restarted. The rest keep serving."). If PHP keeps crashing for five minutes, Rezure pauses the automatic restarts until you start or stop it yourself.

Other services are not restarted. A database or Nginx that exits on its own shows Stopped the next time the page refreshes. Check its log, then start it again.

To get a Windows notification when either happens, turn on Notify when a service crashes in Settings: "{name} stopped unexpectedly", or "{name} keeps crashing: automatic restart paused" when PHP gives up.

Processes left behind by an earlier crash of Rezure itself are cleaned up the next time it starts, but only ones Rezure can prove it started.

Manage services

Not every project needs PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Mailpit. Manage services ("Choose which services this page shows") lets you keep only the rows you use.

• The dialog has two groups: On the Services page and Not added. Remove and Add move a service between them.
• Removing a service doesn't uninstall it or touch its data: add it back any time.
• A running service is stopped first ("Running: removing it stops it first"). A removed service is also left out of Start all, Restart all, and Stop all.
• Nginx and PHP are marked "Your project sites need it". You can still remove them.
• Pinned PHP versions follow the PHP row; they can't be removed on their own.

Services added in future versions of Rezure show up on the page by default.

Closing the window

By default, closing Rezure's window quits it, and quitting stops every service, every SSH tunnel, and every shared project.

To keep things running in the background, turn on Keep running in tray on close in Settings. Closing the window then only hides it. The tray icon's menu has Show Rezure and Quit, and Quit still stops everything first.

The sidebar summary

The card at the bottom of the sidebar shows how many services are up ("Services up … of N"), and Uptime: how long Rezure itself has been open, not how long any one service has been running. The Services item in the sidebar shows the same running/total count.

Troubleshooting

"port 80 is already in use" or "can't start Nginx: port 80 is held by …"

Another program has the port. See Port Conflicts; for most programs Rezure can stop it for you.

"{name} isn't installed yet: download it from the Binaries panel first"

That message predates the current layout. Install the service from its row, or from Install version on the Switch page.

PostgreSQL refuses to start "with administrator rights"

Rezure was started with Run as administrator, and PostgreSQL won't run elevated. Close Rezure, open it normally, and start PostgreSQL again.

A database is stuck on "Starting…"

Open its log (the logs toggle on the row). If it's still printing recovery messages, let it finish. If it says "the server stopped responding: no output and no connections for 90s", the data directory may be damaged or held by another program; check MariaDB & MySQL.

Related

• Port Conflicts: when a port is already taken
• Logs: every service's output in one place
• Settings: tray, notifications, and start with Windows