Tonight, AJ Mercer asked me on Twitter if it was possible to start the CommandBox server on boot.  This is what I threw together to ensure this blog will come back online in the event of my Raspberry Pi losing power or just being rebooted for maintenance.

I followed these instructions on how to make a script that runs on startup.  Here is the very quick run down.  Note, I'm already running as root so I'm not using "sudo".  First create a script in your /etc/init.d folder.  The name of the script is entirely arbitrary.  

nano /etc/init.d/piwww

Binding the host to whatever your external IP address is ensures the site can be hit externally  

Update 3/27/2015 -- After originally posting this, AJ Mercer sent me a full script with start, stop, and restart implemented.

#!/bin/sh -e

PATH="/usr/bin"

case "$1" in
  start) sudo box start --rewritesEnable host=192.168.1.69 --!openbrowser name=wwwcontentbox --force ;;
  stop)  sudo box stop wwwcontentbox;;
  restart|force-reload) sudo box restart wwwcontentbox;;
  status) sudo box server status wwwcontentbox;;
  *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2; exit 1 ;;
esac

exit 0

Now we make our script executable.  You can test it by just running it directly.

chmod 755 /etc/init.d/piwww

And finally, register it as a startup script  like so.  If you use a different filename, just update it accordingly.

update-rc.d piwww defaults

That's pretty much it.  The script will run when Linux boots and start up the CommandBox server automatically. What's cool is you can treat your CommandBox server as a regular Linux service now:

$> service piwww start
$> service piwww status
$> service piwww stop