What is the best way to run Apache2 and MySQL as daemons that run on startup? Can anyone give me some scenarios/examples. Thanks in advance!

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it helps to know the os you are useing. different oses use differnt ways to start services.

if you read the apache2 docs you should see a section that says how to install it as a service.

basicly you create a script and put it with the rest fo your run control scripts. and link to it from teh proper init level directory.

IE:

in solaris all the run control scripts are in /etc/init.d
you create your start/shutdown script in there.

then usually in /etc/rc3.d you create a hard link to the script you just created. The link would be named S##script-name (ie: S99apache2) and you would have a shutdown script in /etc/rc0-2.d also. These scripts would start with a K.

sorry, I'm running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. I don't see a /etc/rc.d or an /etc/init.d folder. Where do startup scripts go?

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i got it to work! w00t! all i had to do was create a file called rc.local with the following lines:

echo " httpd"; /path/to/apache start
echo " mysqld"; /path/to/mysqld_safe --user=mysql &

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