Starting as a Service
When using CommandBox on a staging or production server, you may wish to start up servers as a service when the OS comes online. The recommended approach is to use the CommandBox Service Manager Module, which is a commercial module that handles all major operating systems (Linux, Mac, Windows) automatically.

See screencast here:
Alternatively, you can manually do so following one of these community guides.
Windows
See screencast here: https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/screencast-starting-commandbox-servers-as-a-windows-service
MacOS
Coming soon...
CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu (system.d)
Create a .service
file
nano /usr/lib/systemd/system/mySite.service
as follows:
[Unit]
Description=mySite Service
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/box server start /var/www/mySiteAPI/server.json
Type=forking
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Start the service
systemctl start mySite.service
Give the service about a minute to load up, then check its status
systemctl status mySite.service
Once you've verified the service is running as expected, enable the service to load at boot
systemctl enable mySite.service
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