Running Mongrel under DaemonTools

I've installed DaemonTools to make sure that the various services I run are up and behaving reasonably nicely. Since I also run plenty of Rails applications I use this DaemonTools script to keep Mongrel running.

#!/bin/sh
exec 2>&1

echo "Starting..."

ENVIRONMENT=production
PORT=8000
IP=0.0.0.0

CHDIR=/var/www/www.application.com
USER=application_user

exec softlimit -m 134217728 \
     setuidgid $USER \
     env HOME=$CHDIR \
     mongrel_rails start -e $ENVIRONMENT -p $PORT -a $IP -c $CHDIR 2>&1

Create a separate service for each Mongrel you'd like to run and change the PORT variable in the script.

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Craig
published
2009-02-27
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