Here’s an easier way to run XMR as a systemd service on Ubuntu (18.04).
Copy the whole block into your terminal and it will create the xibo-xmr service. You might want to adjust some values before doing that. In the [Service] section, adjust User and Group the whatever your web server / php is also running as. Usually it’s the www-data user. ExecStart requires the correct paths to your php binaries and the xmr.phar file included in Xibo.
sudo cat <<EOF >>/etc/systemd/system/xibo-xmr.service
[Unit]
Description=Xibo XMR
After=network.target
[Service]
User=www-data
Group=www-data
ExecStart=/usr/bin/php /srv/www/xibo/vendor/bin/xmr.phar
Restart=always
KillMode=process
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
Reload the systemd manager, enable the service at startup and finally, start the xmr service.
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable xibo-xmr.service
sudo systemctl start xibo-xmr.service
You can check the status if the xmr service is properly running. Set debug to false in your config.json for detailed output. Output example to verify that xmr is running and php is listening to the internal cms and public display port set in config.json.
$ sudo systemctl status xibo-xmr
● xibo-xmr.service - Xibo XMR
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/xibo-xmr.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2019-12-17 22:37:19 UTC; 3s ago
Main PID: 22496 (php)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/xibo-xmr.service
└─22496 /usr/bin/php /srv/www/xibo/vendor/bin/xmr.phar
Dec 17 22:37:19 srv001 systemd[1]: Started Xibo XMR.
$ sudo lsof -i -P -n | grep 22496
php 22496 www-data 10u IPv4 816472 0t0 TCP 127.0.0.1:50001 (LISTEN)
php 22496 www-data 12u IPv4 816474 0t0 TCP 10.0.30.10:9505 (LISTEN)