How to run Snap haskell webapp in production?

Question

I\'ve installed Snap/Haskell on my production Ubuntu server (on EC2), and checked-out my project - but how do I run it?

I mean, locally, I run it from command line:

Answer 1

Since it's Ubuntu, you're almost always better off using upstart to manage it.

man 5 init

Among other things, it lets you set dependency hierarchies for your services. "snapapp depends on mongodb so don't start snapapp until mongodb is running" - that sort of thing.

Yes, snap is a web server, but we almost always put nginx in front of them with the snap apps only listening on localhost, and a proxy_path pointing to the server or a group of them.

Funny enough, we've almost completely switched to Common Lisp for new development at $work and the setup is exactly the same.