Run script with rc.local: script works, but not at boot

Question

I have a node.js script which need to start at boot and run under the www-data user. During development I always started the script with:

su www-dat         


        

Answer 1

first make the script executable using sudo chmod 755 /path/of/the/file.sh now add the script in the rc.local sh /path/of/the/file.sh before exit 0 in the rc.local, next make the rc.local to executable with sudo chmod 755 /etc/rc.local next to initialize the rc.local use sudo /etc/init.d/rc.local start this will initiate the rc.local now reboot the system. Done..