Deployment

So you have built your Zotonic site, and now you want to show it to the world. This page tells you how to configure your zotonic environment so that it is ready for real-world website visitors.

As per the Installation Instructions, up until now you probably have always started Zotonic using the zotonic debug command. This is fine for debugging purposes, because it gives you an Erlang shell in which you can view the output of the server, the ?DEBUG messages that are triggered, and try out Erlang expressions.

However for a production system, you don’t need this shell, you want Zotonic running in the background, and started at startup.

This manual describes the various ways how Zotonic can be run and how it works in combination with widely used HTTP frontends like Varnish and nginx.