Setting up Passenger and Nginx to Autostart

Source: http://serverfault.com/a/69753

This describes how to set up nginx to autostart on Ubuntu when it's installed via RVM and Passenger.

The typical way to start nginx is through /opt/nginx/sbin/nginx assuming that it's installed in the default directory.

• Create shell script in /etc/init.d
  sudo vim /etc/init.d/nginx-passenger.sh

• Paste in this text:

  #!/bin/bash
  # this script starts the nginx process attached to passenger
  sudo /opt/nginx/sbin/nginx
  

• Make it executable sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/nginx-passenger.sh

• Run it to make sure it works

• Update the init script links sudo update-rc.d nginx-passenger.sh defaults

  The man page for update-rc.d is -> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man8/update-rc.d.8.html