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.
CommandBox Service Manager
See screencast here:
CommandBox Service Manager
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/local/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

External Web Server

Single Server Mode

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