How to keep Laravel Queue system running on server

Question

I recently setup a Laravel Queue system. The basics are a cronjob calls a command which adds jobs to a queue and calls a second command which sends an email.

The sy

Answer 1

You should use linux supervisor

Installation is simple and on Ubuntu I can install it with following command:

apt-get install supervisor

Supervisor configuration files are located in /etc/supervisor/conf.d directory.

[program:email-queue]
process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
command=php /var/www/laravel-example/artisan queue:work redis --queue=emailqueue --sleep=3 --tries=3
autostart=true
autorestart=true
user=forge
numprocs=2
redirect_stderr=true
stdout_logfile=/var/www/laravel-example//storage/logs/supervisord.log

For each process you should create a new process configuration file. With this configuration, listener will retry each job 3 times. Also Supervisor will restart listener if it fails or if system restarts.