Starting server as a service on ubuntu

[kenetik]

I've tried creating a systemd service file for archive box to be able to start and stop it, but it hasn't been successful.

Are there any recommendations on how to do this, I couldn't find it in the wiki.

My attempt:

root@abox:~# cat /etc/systemd/system/archivebox.service
[Unit]
Description=Archive Box
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/archivebox server 127.0.0.1:8000
User=archivebox
Group=archivebox
Type=forking
Restart=always
RestartSec=15
RestartPreventExitStatus=0
TimeoutStopSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

root@abox:~# systemctl start archivebox.service
Job for archivebox.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status archivebox.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

root@abox:~# systemctl status archivebox.service
● archivebox.service - Archive Box
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/archivebox.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2021-05-02 01:38:19 UTC; 7s ago
    Process: 117168 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/archivebox server 127.0.0.1:8000 (code=exited, status=2)

journalctl -xe didnt have anything.

Thanks!

[kenetik]

Was able to fix this by adding a WorkingDirectory= entry.

Example:

[Unit]
Description=Archive Box
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/archivebox
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/archivebox server 127.0.0.1:8000
User=archivebox
Group=archivebox
#Type=forking
Type=idle
Restart=always
RestartSec=15
RestartPreventExitStatus=0
TimeoutStopSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[pirate]

Don't set the working dir to the entire home directory /home/archivebox, create a dir inside of the home dir and use that instead: /home/archivebox/data.

[kenetik]

when doing so, what all directories would i need to move into the data dir? the archive dir and what else?