[hunchentoot-devel] Deployment

[Robert Synnott]

On 15 Nov 2008, at 23:27, 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.)
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> - Ken

I make a core file and then run it in screen, generally with a swank  
server running. Probably less than ideal, but works.
Rob