webapps-uninstall

Unregister MATLAB Web App Server services and accounts from the operating system on Windows, Linux, and macOS systems

Running the webapps-uninstall command unregisters the product from the operating system but does not uninstall the MATLAB^® Web App Server™ product. To remove the product files from your system, use the product uninstaller after running this command.

Syntax

webapps-uninstall

webapps-uninstall [--version | -v]

webapps-uninstall [--help | -h]

Description

webapps-uninstall unregisters MATLAB Web App Server from the operating system without uninstalling the product. The command performs the following actions:

Unregisters and removes the mw-webapps-R2026a and mw-webapps-launcher-R2026a services from the operating system service manager.
Deletes the default local user accounts such as MwWebAppServerR2026a and MwWebAppWorkerR2026a as well as the local group MwWebAppAuthorsR2026a created during setup.
Clears the contents of the USR folder in the server data directory to invalidate the runtime state of the server.

webapps-uninstall [--version | -v] returns the version of MATLAB Web App Server that is installed.

webapps-uninstall [--help | -h] returns command-line help.

Examples

Uninstall MATLAB Web App Server Services

webapps-uninstall

Uninstallation successful.

Get Version of MATLAB Web App Server

To get the version of MATLAB Web App Server that is installed, at the system command line, type:

webapps-uninstall --version

MATLAB Web App Server (R2026a Release)

Get Command Line Help

To get help for the current command, at the command line, type:

webapps-uinstall --help

Usage:
  webapps-uninstall -h [ --help ]       Display this help message
  webapps-uninstall -v [ --version ]    Display the version of MATLAB Web App Server
  webapps-uninstall                     Uninstall MATLAB Web App Server

More About

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MATLAB Web App Server Command-Line Script Location

The command-line scripts are located in the script folder in your MATLAB Web App Server installation folder. For instance, the default locations for R2026a are as follows:

Operating System	Default Location of Command-Line Scripts
Windows^® (Administrator)	`C:\Program Files\MATLAB\MATLAB Web App Server\R2026a\script`
Linux^® (sudo)	`/usr/local/MATLAB/MATLAB_Web_App_Server/R2026a/script`
macOS (sudo)	`/Applications/MATLAB/MATLAB_Web_App_Server/R2026a/script`

Understand Deleted and Preserved Data

Use webapps-uninstall to reset the server environment without losing your hosted applications or historical data.

Running this command does not delete your web app archives in the form of .ctf files, server logs, or MATLAB Runtime installations. These remain in their respective apps, logs, and product installation folders.
Note that your active server configuration is removed from the system services. When you run webapps-setup again, the server creates a new default configuration.
To protect your previous settings, the command moves the existing configuration files to a config_backup folder within the server data directory.
Use the webapps-config command to manually reapply custom settings such as SSL certificate paths or custom port numbers after a re-installation. To simplify this process, run webapps-config get and record your current settings before executing webapps-uninstall.

Version History

Introduced in R2020a