How to Auto-start Services on Boot in Linux?

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There could be various reasons for server reboot, including the following.

By doing the right configuration, you dont have to start them manually each time you reboot.

A little bit of automation.

The following examples are for two popular distros tested onDigitalOceanservers.

Thats all!httpdscript will be called to start services on Linux boot.

It uses systemd to manage the services.

Most of the software like Apache, PHP, MySQL, Nginx scripts are added inserviceswhen you install it.

Lets take an example ofPHP-FPM.

Lets test it by rebooting the server.

Ubuntu

Configuring auto-start services in Ubuntu is slightly different.