Autostart SFW on startup of the Raspberry pi

With the following startup script we can run the Smallest Federated Wiki automatically on reboot of the RaspberryPi.

go to init.d

cd /etc/init.d

create a new script "sfwstarter"

sudo nano sfwstarter

paste this inside the script (if you followed this example then SFW should be in /opt/apps)

#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          sfwstarter
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start daemon at boot time
# Description:       Start the Smallest-Federated-Wiki express server on startup.
# Created by:        Bauwe Bijl http://bauwe.nl
### END INIT INFO
cd /opt/apps/Smallest-Federated-Wiki/server/express/bin && sudo node server.js

save (Ctrl-x)

edit the permissions to make it executable

sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/sfwstarter

add it to the startup scripts

sudo update-rc.d sfwstarter defaults

restart the pi

sudo init 6