Start sync gateway service when system restarts

Question

I start the sync gateway server from command line like this:

$ ./sync_gateway_service_install.sh

But I have to do this every time I reboot the server. Is there any way to make this script run at server start up? I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.1 on my server.

Answer 1

Found the solution. The problem was Sync Gateway service was going to start before Couchbase Server was started. To solve this issue edit the couchbase_init.d file as following:

$ nano /opt/couchbase/etc/couchbase_init.d

look for start() { section and change it from this:

    errcode=$?
    return $errcode

to this:

   errcode=$?
   sleep 20
   initctl emit couchbase-server-started
   return $errcode

Then edit the sync-gateway.conf file

$ nano /etc/init/sync_gateway.conf

and change this line:

    start on runlevel [2345]

to this:

    start on runlevel [2345] and couchbase-server-started

That will start the sync-gateway service after Couchbase server is started.