Upstart Script for the PlayFramework 1.x

playframework

# Upstart script for a play application that binds to an unprivileged user.
# put this into a file like /etc/init/playframework
# you can then start/stop it using either initctl or start/stop/restart
# e.g. 
# start playframework
# http://dominikdorn.com

description     "Description of your app"
author          "Dominik Dorn <dominik@studyguru.eu>"
version         "1.0"

env PLAY_BINARY=/opt/play/current/play
env HOME=/home/sgwebsite/apps/playapp/
env USER=sgwebsite
env GROUP=sgwebsite
env PROFILE=hyper

start on (filesystem and net-device-up IFACE=lo) or runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]

respawn
respawn limit 10 5
umask 022
expect fork


pre-start script
        test -x $PLAY_BINARY || { stop; exit 0; }
        test -c /dev/null || { stop; exit 0; }
        chdir ${HOME}
        rm ${HOME}/server.pid || true
        $PLAY_BINARY dependencies $HOME
end script

pre-stop script
        exec $PLAY_BINARY stop $HOME
end script

post-stop script
        rm ${HOME}/server.pid || true
end script

script
exec start-stop-daemon --start --exec $PLAY_BINARY --chuid $USER:$GROUP -- start $HOME --%$PROFILE
end script

If running play 1.0 make sure to remove line 32