Linux startup script for mono FastCGI server

14 Mar 2010

Starting mono FastCGI server with hosted web applications manually after each system startup is really annoying and unprofessional, so here is the shell script which will automate this process at system startup. I named the file which contains the script monoserve and it have to be located in /etc/init.d/ directory. WEBAPPS variable contains hosts and paths to directories where are located web application file so you should change it according to your needs.

#!/bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          monoserve.sh
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $syslog $remote_fs
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $syslog $remote_fs
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start fastcgi mono server with hosts
### END INIT INFO

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/mono
NAME=monoserver
DESC=monoserver

MONOSERVER=$(which fastcgi-mono-server2)
MONOSERVER_PID=$(ps auxf | grep fastcgi-mono-server2.exe | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}')

WEBAPPS="www.domain1.xyz:/:/var/www/domain1.xyz/,www.domain2.xyz:/:/var/www/domain2.xyz/"

case "$1" in
        start)
                if [ -z "${MONOSERVER_PID}" ]; then
                        echo "starting mono server"
                        ${MONOSERVER} /applications=${WEBAPPS} /socket=tcp:127.0.0.1:9000 &
                        echo "mono server started"
                else
                        echo ${WEBAPPS}
                        echo "mono server is running"
                fi
        ;;
        stop)
                if [ -n "${MONOSERVER_PID}" ]; then
                        kill ${MONOSERVER_PID}
                        echo "mono server stopped"
                else
                        echo "mono server is not running"
                fi
        ;;
esac

exit 0

Add appropriate rights:

chmod +x /etc/init.d/monoserve

And install the script:

update-rc.d monoserve defaults