systemd service file for openlitespeed

To start/stop OpenLiteSpeed web server, you can use the following systemd service file

vi /usr/lib/systemd/system/lshttpd.service

Add following content

[Unit]
Description=OpenLiteSpeed HTTP Server
After=network-online.target remote-fs.target nss-lookup.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/var/run/openlitespeed.pid
ExecStart=/usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl start
ExecReload=/usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl restart 
ExecStop=/usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl delay-stop

KillMode=none
PrivateTmp=false
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5

# do not want to be limited in anyway
CPUAccounting=false
TasksAccounting=false
MemoryAccounting=false

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=lsws.service
Alias=openlitespeed.service

To start openlitespeed on boot,

systemctl enable lsws

To start OpenLiteSpeed

systemctl start lsws

To stop OpenLiteSpeed

systemctl stop lsws

See OpenLiteSpeed