python - daemonize bottlepy script

Question

I'm using a Bootle Python Web Framework to develop webapps on Ubuntu. Is there any effective way to daemonize script that starts default bottlepy webserver?

Thank you.

UPD: Now I'm using Supervisord for this purposes.

Answer 1

As reclosedev mentions, nohup ... & will work without fuss.

You can also use something like daemonize Which has more options than using nohup.

Personally I run the following while developing with autoreload switched on:

while true; do python app.py ; done

which restarts the server if I write something stupid. Other solutions will force you to restart your server for a syntax error.

Deployment happens behind apache or lighttpd.

Answer 2

On ubuntu I use following steps:

1. Remember to insert full path to templates into bottle.TEMPLATE_PATH
2. Make script executable (chmod +x <script_name>)
3. Make symlink to script w/o .py extension
4. Navigate to /etc/init.d and copy skeleton to <script_symlink_name>
5. Modify new init script
   • Change NAME to <script_symlink_name>
   • Change DAEMON to <path_to_script_symlink>
   • Change DAEMON_ARGS to ""
   • Change DESCRIPTION
   • Add "--background" switch to start-stop-daemon (line w/o "--test" switch) in do_start()
6. Make init script executabe
7. Test via "service <script name> start"
8. Set autostart: update-rc.d <script-name> defaults