Hello,

Have you tried following the steps from the official documentation here, there is a section that explains how to deploy strapi.io on DigitalOcean:

https://strapi.io/documentation/3.0.0-alpha.x/guides/deployment.html#digital-ocean

If you have followed those step by step instructions already, can you share with the exact error that you are getting so that I could try to advise you furhter?

Regards,
Bobby

i ran into some issues starting pm2 following the official doc, have you tested manually running npm start from the project folder on your server? build your app for production first. if that works, check the pm2 settings.

I just want to point out, for future reference that the latest version (at the time of this answer) of the official documentation is https://strapi.io/documentation/3.0.0-beta.x/guides/deployment.html#digital-ocean