When using jekyll to generate a static page, I wanted to have jekyll running as a service (by using upstart and monit).
Usually you launch jekyll with the --watch parameter and it will refresh the page continously.
Setup a upstart file called /etc/init/jekyll.conf.
script
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
exec start-stop-daemon --make-pid --start --pidfile /var/run/jekyll.pid --chdir /home/dracoblue/live/ --chuid dracoblue:dracoblue --exec /usr/bin/jekyll -- build --watch
end script
It's very important to have export LANG="en_US.UTF-8" in this definition, because otherwise jekyll uses US-ASCII and you can't get rid of messages like:
Liquid Exception: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII in
Now you can stop/start your jekyll server like this:
start jekyll
or
stop jekyll
The corresponding monit file called /etc/monit/conf.d/jekyll.monitrc looks like this:
check process jekyll
with pidfile "/var/run/jekyll.pid"
start program = "/sbin/start jekyll"
stop program = "/sbin/stop jekyll"
if 2 restarts within 3 cycles then timeout
if totalmem > 2000 Mb then alert
if children > 255 for 5 cycles then stop
if cpu usage > 95% for 3 cycles then restart
Finally restart monit:
/etc/init.d/monit restart
