Liferay server autostart script in ubuntu

August 5, 2022

Liferay

Let’s write liferay startup script by following these steps : 
  • First, you need to install the sysv-rc-conf in your system. To do so, Open the terminal and go to the following path.

/etc/apt

  • Now, Open the “sources.list” file using the following command.

sudo nano sources.list

  • And add the following package in the “sources.list” file and save it.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main universe restricted multiverse

  • Now, Install the sysv-rc-conf package by using the following command.

sudo apt-get update -y

sudo apt-get install -y sysv-rc-conf

After successful installation of sysv-rc-conf, please follow these steps.
  • Open new terminal and go to path ‘/etc/init.d’
  • Create a file by using the following command. ( here liferay-autostart is name file that will be created under directory ‘/etc/init.d’ )

sudo touch liferay-autostart

  • Open file by using the following command.

sudo nano liferay-autostart

  • Open the above file and add below script into file
				
					// update liferay-autostart
#!/bin/bash
TOMCAT_HOME=${liferay_tomcat_path}/bin
START_TOMCAT=${liferay_tomcat_path}/bin/startup.sh
STOP_TOMCAT=${liferay_tomcat_path}/bin/shutdown.sh

start() { 
 echo -n "Starting tomcat: " 
 cd $TOMCAT_HOME 
 ${START_TOMCAT} 
 echo "done." 
} 

stop() { 
 echo -n "Shutting down tomcat: " 
 cd $TOMCAT_HOME 
 ${STOP_TOMCAT} 
 echo "done." 
} 

case "$1" in 
start) 
 sleep 10 
 start 
 ;; 

stop) 
 stop 
 ;;

restart)
 stop
 sleep 10
 start
 ;; 
 *)

echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac 
exit 0

Note : Replace variable ${liferay_tomcat_path} with actual path of your liferay installation.

Once you add it, the script is ready to run. Execute following commands on file you have created under ‘/etc/init.d’

sudo chmod 755 liferay-autostart
sudo update-rc.d liferay-autostart remove
sudo update-rc.d liferay-autostart defaults
sudo sysv-rc-conf – – list liferay-autostart

  • Last command should return the output below.

liferay-autostart 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

If you didn’t get the above output ( you have made some mistakes ), please verify steps again.

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