Startup

[Jason Horsman]

How do I go about making it so the crafter authoring software automatically starts when the system boots up? I'm on a CentOS host. I've tried adding scripts to rc.local but crafter keeps giving me messages about not wanting to run as root. I don't want to always have to login to start the software. Thanks.

[Sumer Jabri]

The reason for not running as root are security-related (never a good idea). Two ways you can run automatically (I'm sure others can think of more):

1) In your rc.local, run it as the user `crafter` by using the command `sudo -i -u crafter /opt/crafter/bin/startup.sh`

2) Install this script in /usr/lib/systemd/system/crafter.service`

```

[Unit]

Description=Crafter CMS

Documentation=http://docs.craftercms.org

[Service]

User=crafter

Group=crafter

ExecStart=/bin/bash /opt/crafter/bin/startup.sh

ExecStop=/bin/bash /opt/crafter/bin/shutdown.sh

RemainAfterExit=true

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

```

and then execute:

```

        sudo chcon -t systemd_unit_file_t /usr/lib/systemd/system/crafter.service

        sudo systemctl daemon-reload

        sudo systemctl enable crafter.service

```

That will effectively create a service called `crafter` and make it enabled by default. You can now start it and stop it etc.

Needless to say, #2 is generally better for prod installs.

Hope that helps.

--sumer