Virola self-hosted server running as a daemon on Ubuntu or Debian

  1. Create user virola
  2. Create file virola-server.service in /etc/systemd/system directory
  3. Add the following to the file: 
    [Unit]
Description=Virola Server

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/virola
User=virola
ExecStart=/usr/bin/virola-server --listen HOST:PORT --storage-dir ./storage
StandardOutput=append:/home/virola/virola-server.log
StandardError=append:/home/virola/virola-server.log
Restart=on-failure
ExecStartPost=/bin/sh -c 'umask 022; pgrep -f virola-server > /home/virola/virola-server.pid'

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
    where
    • HOST is the IP you've chosen for the Virola server
    • PORT is the port you've chosen for the Virola server
  4. Execute the following commands 
    sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start virola-server
sudo systemctl enable virola-server