Custom scripts globally

You can provide custom startup commands via bash scripts that are executed by all PHP container. This may be useful to specify additional software to install or additional settings to apply during the initial startup.

* custom-scripts-per-php-version (individually for different PHP versions) * autostarting-nodejs-apps

[!NOTE] Global scripts are always executed after per PHP version scripts.

General

You can add shell scripts that are executed for all PHP container equally.

[!IMPORTANT] Provided scripts must end by the file extension .sh and should be executable. Anything not ending by .sh will be ignored.

[!IMPORTANT] Provided scripts will be executed by the root user within the PHP container.

Where

Startup scripts can be added to autostart/.

host> ls -l path/to/devilbox/

drwxr-xr-x  2 cytopia cytopia 4096 Mar  5 21:53 autostart/
drwxr-xr-x  2 cytopia cytopia 4096 Mar  5 21:53 backups/
drwxr-xr-x  2 cytopia cytopia 4096 Mar  5 21:53 bash/
drwxr-xr-x  2 cytopia cytopia 4096 Mar  5 21:53 ca/
drwxr-xr-x  2 cytopia cytopia 4096 Mar  5 21:53 cfg/
drwxr-xr-x  2 cytopia cytopia 4096 Mar  5 21:53 compose/
drwxr-xr-x  2 cytopia cytopia 4096 Mar  5 21:53 data/
drwxr-xr-x  2 cytopia cytopia 4096 Mar  5 21:53 docs/
drwxr-xr-x  2 cytopia cytopia 4096 Mar  5 21:53 mail/
drwxr-xr-x  2 cytopia cytopia 4096 Mar  5 21:53 mod/

Custom scripts are added by placing a file into autostart/. The file must end by .sh in order to be executed by the PHP container.

When

The scripts will be executed by the PHP container during initial startup. Whenever you change your scripts, ensure to restart the Devilbox.

How

The scripts will always be executed inside the PHP container (Debian Linux) and will be run with root privileges. It is however possible to drop privileges within the script to have them executed as a normal user.

Examples

Running commands as devilbox user

As mentioned above, all scripts are run by the root user. If you do need something to be executed as the normal user: devilbox, you can simply su inside the shell script.

The following example will install grunt and start a NodeJS application as the devilbox user for whatever PHP container has been started.

# Install grunt as devilbox user
su -c "npm install grunt" -l devilbox

# Start a NodeJS application with pm2 as devilbox user
su -c "cd /shared/httpd/my-node/src/; pm2 start index.js" -l devilbox