Hi Everyone,
What is the best way to run a process (cfm file) on startup of the server process ?
I’ve come across using OS level checks and using wget, and also using the onServerStart() process but have not managed to make that work.
Basically I want to run a startup script each time the server starts, to populate server level variables…perhaps there is a way to do this as part of the ‘box server start’ process instead of Luce ??
Tony Burn
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I’m not sure what you’re doing, but if you are trying to extract configuration, check out using environment variables in stage/production and on dev, use this module:
https://www.forgebox.io/view/commandbox-dotenv
You can get at JVM props and env vars in the server scope in Lucee, or frameworks like ColdBox have helper functions in place to access them.
Hi,
What I am trying to achieve is a process to run on startup of the server (each time it starts) to set a number of server variables, that contain config settings, to save me having to re-read json files every time those settings are needed.
Tony Burn
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Yep, look at env vars and the dotenv module. but even if you needed to read it in onApplicationStart() and cache the settings in the application scope (or use a framework like Coldbox which gives you much better control over these things) that would work as well so long as you can control the file as necessary per each deployment.
Thanks Brad,
I really need on server start, not Application….and I understand that this needs to be in server.cfc but I’m not sure where this file needs to be located to be picked up and actioned on startup - can you (or anyone) advise
I have all my startup processes in a single cfm file at present, so really just need to call this on startup.
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Hi Everyone,
I am also looking at the start of the service to execute a first task that starts processes without a server url being called.
Just that if it starts the onApplicationStart function in fact.
I’ve been looking for a while but can’t find.
The idea is that when I deploy my applications (micro-service) the services are launched (scheduling task, service monitoring, etc.)
Christophe
Hello everyone,
I still haven’t found any solutions …
I would just like that during deployment, when starting or restarting the server (docker) an action or a task is executed. This way I can start my tasks which are in the onApplicationStart.
Because obviously at startup (in lucee lucee_ctl start) or (in commandBox start) nothing is started from onApplicationStart.
I have tried to simply put an automatic task in the configuration, every minute, but this one forces me to define the url in the task. Which is not easy with automatic deployment. Server name changes, port changes!
No idea ?
Thanks
is there a reason you’re not using the Server.cfc to register an onServerStart() method?
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On a related note, this question does come up every once in a while. I put in this ticket just as an idea of something we might do.
https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/COMMANDBOX-1391
Yes,
I didn’t know 
I managed to launch a first process on the local host with the port and my tasks are controlled and started.
Thanks, this is a solution that works for me.