I am running play on multiple machines in our datacenter. We loadbalance the hell out of everything. On each play node/VM I’m using Apache and an init.d/play script to start and stop the play service.
The problem is that our play websites are hosted on shared network storage. This makes deployment really nice, you deploy to one place and the website is updated on all 100 machines. Each machine has a mapped folder “/z/www/PlayApp1” where the play app lives.
The issue is that when the service starts or stops the server.pid file is being written to that network location where the apps files live.
The problem is that as I bring up 100 nodes, the 100th node will override the PID file with it’s pid and now that pid file only represents the correct process ID for 1 out of 100 nodes.
So how do I get play to store the pid file locally and not with the app files on the network share? I’ll need each server’s PID file to reflect that machines actual process.
We are using CentOS (Linux)
Thanks in advance
Josh
According to https://github.com/playframework/play/pull/43 it looks like there is a –pid_file command line option; it might only work with paths under the application root so you might have to make directories for each distinct host (which could possibly be symlinks)
I have 0 experience with Play so hopefully this is helpful information.