2. The soft shutdown ./stop_xwiki.sh never works, it always goes in for the kill.
For this one I don't know. I don't have access to a Mac but AFAIK it's supposed to work well. Any specific error when you run it ?
t0 = Shutdown initiated 2017-03-08 20:27:46.627:INFO:oxtjl.NotifyListener:ShutdownMonitor: ---------------------------------- 2017-03-08 20:27:46.627:INFO:oxtjl.NotifyListener:ShutdownMonitor: Server stopping, please wait while all resources are closed... 2017-03-08 20:27:46.638:INFO:oejs.ServerConnector:ShutdownMonitor: Stopped ServerConnector@22da3949{HTTP/1.1}{0.0.0.0:8080} t0 ./stop_xwiki.sh Attempting to stop XWiki cleanly on port 8080... Failed to stop XWiki cleanly, attempting kill... I am thinking that perhaps it didn’t give it enough time. Keith