elm-website

#!/bin/bash

SITEHOME=/home/fred/elm/platform/Elm-Platform/master/elm-lang.org
PROG=dist/build/run-elm-website/run-elm-website

NAME=elm-website
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/home/fred/.cabal/bin:$PATH
LOGFILE=/var/log/${NAME}.log

# need this to avoid error about "hGetContents: invalid argument
# (invalid byte sequence)"
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

# Once got an elm error when this was not set. Might not be needed anymore.
export HOME=/root

case $1 in
    start)
       echo $$ > /var/run/${NAME}.pid;
       cd $SITEHOME
       date >>$LOGFILE
       exec $SITEHOME/$PROG 1>>$LOGFILE 2>&1
       ;;
     stop)
       kill `cat /var/run/${NAME}.pid` ;;
     *)
       echo "usage: elm-website {start|stop}" ;;
 esac
 exit 0

elm-website.conf

# /etc/monit/conf.d/elm-website.conf

check process elm-website with pidfile /var/run/elm-website.pid
    start program = "/usr/local/sbin/elm-website start"
    stop program = "/usr/local/sbin/elm-website stop"
    if failed host 127.0.0.1 port 8000 protocol http
      and request "/" with timeout 10 seconds then restart
    if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout

Rock on. Thanks so much for setting this up! 🍰