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WARNING This just uses the development server for testing purposes. For production environments you should probably go with a more robust solution, like gunicorn or a WSGI server.
Following example shows a systemd unit file that can run PowerDNS-Admin
You shouldn't run PowerDNS-Admin as root, so let's start of with the user/group creation that will later run PowerDNS-Admin:
Create a new group for PowerDNS-Admin:
sudo groupadd powerdnsadmin
Create a user for PowerDNS-Admin:
sudo useradd --system -g powerdnsadmin powerdnsadmin
--system creates a user without login-shell and password, suitable for running system services.
Create new systemd service file:
sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/powerdns-admin.service
General example:
[Unit]
Description=PowerDNS-Admin
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=powerdnsadmin
Group=powerdnsadmin
ExecStart=/opt/web/powerdns-admin/flask/bin/python ./run.py
WorkingDirectory=/opt/web/powerdns-admin
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Debian example:
[Unit]
Description=PowerDNS-Admin
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=powerdnsadmin
Group=powerdnsadmin
Environment=PATH=/opt/web/powerdns-admin/flask/bin
ExecStart=/opt/web/powerdns-admin/flask/bin/python /opt/web/powerdns-admin/run.py
WorkingDirectory=/opt/web/powerdns-admin
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Before starting the service, we need to make sure that the new user can work on the files in the PowerDNS-Admin folder:
chown -R powerdnsadmin:powerdnsadmin /opt/web/powerdns-admin
After saving the file, we need to reload the systemd daemon:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
We can now try to start the service:
sudo systemctl start powerdns-admin
If you would like to start PowerDNS-Admin automagically at startup enable the service:
systemctl enable powerdns-admin
Should the service not be up by now, consult your syslog. Generally this will be a file permission issue, or python not finding it's modules. See the Debian unit example to see how you can use systemd in a python virtualenv