I recently installed Railo 4.0 on a standard Amazon Linux AMI using the Railo 4.0 64-bit installer and everything went fine except that on startup, Railo won’t automatically startup. Even after a re-install (to make sure I had chosen to start Railo at boot during the installation), nothing changed. I still was not able to get Railo to start on server reboot.
Apparently, this is a known issue with the installers (more details on this thread). This is a *nix only bug and works fine on Windows based installers. The solution is not very difficult at all. Just these 2 steps needed :-
- Copy the railo_ctl script from /opt/railo/railo_ctl (or your custom installation directory) to /etc/init.d folder
- Run the following command to add this to server startup[xml]chkconfig railo_ctl on[/xml]
Hopefully, this will get fixed in the next version of the Installer but until then, this simple fix should get you going.
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You can also apply user data when launching from an AMI:
#!/bin/bash
cp /opt/railo/railo_ctl /etc/init.d/railo_ctl
chkconfig railo_ctl on
This will execute as root.
Thanks for the tip Rad 🙂