Launching OpenMRS automatically as a service

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These are the steps to follow for making the OpenMRS launch automatically. We want our server to start automatically, so it starts  after booting the pc and when is network available.

 

Sript for launching the openmrs server:

#!/bin/bash cd /home/pere/Documents/referenceapplication-standalone-2.7.0/ 

java -jar openmrs-standalone.jar -commandline -tomcatport 8081

 

Number of port used by tomcat is arbitrary

 

We have to save it in:/usr/local/bin/

 

Now, create a file called: /lib/system/system/OpenMRS.service

 

It has to contain:


[Unit]

Description=Launch OpenMRS server service

After=network.target

StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service] Type=simple

RestartSec=1

User=pere

ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/launchServer.sh

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

 

Where User= field contains the user’s session name and ExecStart = the path to run the script.

 

 

 

Now, start the service:

 

$ sudo systemctl start OpenMRS

 

And start on boot:

 

$ sudo systemctl enable OpenMRS

 

 

For checking the status of the service:

 

$ systemctl status OpenMRS.service