Deployment

Orbited has two general modes, "Development mode" and "Deployment mode".

Development Mode

In development mode you simply run the orbited daemon directly with the command "orbited" and it looks for the orbited.cfg in a variety of places. Orbited ships with a number of demos and tests to let you check whether Orbited is working and to get a feel for how it works. Once orbited is started you can access the demos and tests by going to http://localhost:8000/static/ (or http://[address]:8000/static/ if you're not running it on localhost) in a browser. If you're not running on localhost, remember to edit the access section of orbited.cfg to allow connections from the address.

Deployment Mode

There are a number of distribution-specific ways to daemonize a process, including upstart and start-stop-daemon. Look at your distro's documentation to find the best way. Of course, you could also use screen. After installing screen (sudo apt-get install screen on Ubuntu), do:

$ screen
$ orbited
$ (ctr-a, d)
$ exit

Then later, to reattach (to stop or restart orbited):

$ screen -x