[hunchentoot-devel] Deployment

[Zach Beane]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 03:27:50PM -0800, Ken Harris wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> OK, this maybe isn't 100% Hunchentoot-specific, but it's kind of relevant...
> 
> I can't find any information about actually deploying a Hunchentoot
> web app (or any other Lisp server process).  So far I've just been
> running it under SLIME in Emacs on my dev box.
> 
> With *other platforms* (ugh, I know I'm not supposed to say that),
> there's often a utility for deploying, or a script you can drop in
> /etc/init.d, or whatever.  I haven't found one for
> SBCL/Hunchentoot/... yet.  How do people typically run these?  Just
> ssh to the server and "sbcl --load myfile.lisp &", where the end of
> myfile.lisp has a (hunchentoot:start-server ...) call?  Something
> clever with ASDF?  (N.b., I barely understand ASDF.)

I use GNU screen at boot time to start a detached session with emacs
and sbcl running. The sbcl additionally loads a Lisp file that loads
everything and starts up the swank and hunchentoot servers.

Zach