this seems to work, except once you shutdown, you have to manually start webcontrol?
If you want webcontrol to automagically start every time the pi does, then you need to add a script and start it as a service or set it to start as a cron job every time it reboots.
One service tutorial is here. Your script file would have just a couple lines:
#!/bin/bash
/home/pi/webcontrol/webcontrol &
Then you would copy the script file, let’s say you called it webservice.sh, to the correct location (/usr/bin/).
Your unit file would have this line in it at the appropriate location to reference the script you made:
ExecStart=/bin/bash /usr/bin/webservice.sh
With those minor modifications to the tutorial at the link provide, you should be good to go. See if it comes up after you reboot.