Init-script to run graphite-web as FastCGI Daemon (based on ubuntu package graphite-web 0.9.12+debian-3) + lighttpd example config

graphite-fcgi

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: FastCGI server for graphite
# Required-Start: networking
# Required-Stop: networking
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: S 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start/Stop FastCGI server of graphite-web package.
# Description: Grahpite-web is a Django webapp. Django has a built-in FastCGI server
# which is started/stopped by this init script.
### END INIT INFO
#
# Author: Günter Dressel <g.dressel@cyledge.com>
# Inspired by Script of Guillermo Fernandez Castellanos available at https://gist.github.com/fwenzel/285758#file_django_servers.sh


DESC="Graphite FastCGI daemon"
NAME=graphite-fcgi
DAEMON="/usr/bin/graphite-manage"
RUN_AS_USER="_graphite"
RUN_AS_GROUP="_graphite"
RUN_DATA_DIR="/var/run/graphite-fcgi"
PIDFILE="$RUN_DATA_DIR/pid"
SOCKET="$RUN_DATA_DIR/socket"
DAEMON_ARGS="runfcgi method=threaded socket=$SOCKET pidfile=$PIDFILE daemonize=true"
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

[ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0

. /lib/lsb/init-functions


#
#       Function that starts the daemon/service.
#
do_start()
{

    if [ ! -d $RUN_DATA_DIR ]
    then
      mkdir -p $RUN_DATA_DIR
      chown $RUN_AS_USER:$RUN_AS_GROUP $RUN_DATA_DIR
      chmod 0775 $RUN_DATA_DIR
    fi


    # Starting the Django FastCGI process
    if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
       echo -n " already running"
    else
        start-stop-daemon --start --chuid $RUN_AS_USER:$RUN_AS_GROUP --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON $DAEMON_ARGS || return 2
        RETVAL="$?"
        [ $RETVAL = "0" ] && chmod 0777 $SOCKET
    fi
    return $RETVAL
}

#
#       Function that stops the daemon/service.
#
do_stop() {
    # Killing the Django FastCGI process
    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE || return 2
    RETVAL="$?"
    if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
       rm $PIDFILE
    fi
    return $RETVAL
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
        do_start
        case "$?" in
                0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
                *) log_end_msg 1 ;;
        esac
        ;;

    stop)
        log_daemon_msg "Sopping $DESC" "$NAME"
        do_stop
        case "$?" in
                0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
                *) log_end_msg 1 ;;
        esac
        ;;

    status)
        status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && exit 0 || exit $?
        ;;


    restart)
        log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
        do_stop
        sleep 1
        do_start
        case "$?" in
                0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
                *) log_end_msg 1 ;;
        esac
        ;;

    *)
        echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|status|restart}" >&2
        exit 3
        ;;
esac

exit 0

lighttpd.conf

#
# lighttpd.conf file to act as http-server for the graphite-fcgi daemon
#


server.modules = (
        "mod_access",
        "mod_alias",
        "mod_compress",
        "mod_redirect",
        "mod_rewrite",
        "mod_fastcgi"
)

server.document-root        = "/var/www"
server.upload-dirs          = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
server.errorlog             = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
server.pid-file             = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
server.username             = "www-data"
server.groupname            = "www-data"
server.port                 = 80

index-file.names            = ( "index.html" )
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".fcgi" )

compress.cache-dir          = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
compress.filetype           = ( "application/javascript", "text/css", "text/html", "text/plain" )

# Ubuntu package default include:
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl"


fastcgi.server = (
  "/graphite.fcgi" => (
    "graphite" => (
      "socket" => "/var/run/graphite-fcgi/socket",
      "check-local" => "disable",
    )
  ),
)

alias.url = (
  "/static" => "/usr/share/graphite-web/static/",
)

url.rewrite-once = (
    "^(/static.*)$" => "$1",
    "^/favicon\.ico$" => "/media/favicon.ico",
    "^(/.*)$" => "/graphite.fcgi$1",
)