kitura-upstart-script

An upstart script to start the IBM Kitura app server.

Getting Started

• Place the kitura-server.conf file in /etc/init/ path.
• Run the following command to check if the syntax is OK.

$ init-checkconf /etc/init/kitura-server.conf 
File /etc/init/kitura-server.conf: syntax ok

• Symlink to /etc/init.d for autocompletion

sudo ln -s /etc/init/kitura-server.conf /etc/init.d/kitura-server

• You may now play with the following service commands : (start|stop|status|restart)

$ sudo service kitura-server start
kitura-server start/running, process 28776
$ sudo service kitura-server start
start: Job is already running: kitura-server
$ sudo service kitura-server stop
kitura-server stop/waiting
$ sudo service kitura-server status
kitura-server stop/waiting
$ sudo service kitura-server start
kitura-server start/running, process 28822
$ sudo service kitura-server status
kitura-server start/running, process 28822
$ sudo service kitura-server restart
kitura-server stop/waiting
kitura-server start/running, process 29283

• Checking the logs

$ tail -f /var/log/kitura-server.log
[2017-01-21T11:02:16.249Z] [VERBOSE] [Kitura.swift:80 start()] Starting an HTTP Server on port 8090...
[2017-01-21T11:02:16.257Z] [INFO] [HTTPServer.swift:83 listen(on:)] Listening on port 8090 (delegate: SSLService.SSLService)

• Verify the URL