Hello this is my first time working with a VPS. I’ve managed to follow the instructions from this tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-application-for-production-on-ubuntu-14-04 but once I reached the “Manage Application with PM2” everything stopped working. Basically my web app works when I run “node index.js” (index.js being where my express app starts) but when I try “pm2 start index.js” it says it’s started but I can’t reach it from my browser. It says it’s online http://i.imgur.com/U6lgxk0.png but it’s not. Help please.
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I compiled my app.js using npm build then pm2 start public/app.js worked for me
There some issue with digital ocean server. I can start server with pm2 start app.js mony_rest_parameters" [PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [app](ids: 0) [PM2] app ✓ [PM2] Process successfully started ┌──────────┬────┬─────────┬──────┬───────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬──────────┬───────────┬──────────┐ │ App name │ id │ version │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │ ├──────────┼────┼─────────┼──────┼───────┼────────┼─────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼───────────┼──────────┤ │ app │ 0 │ 0.0.0 │ fork │ 23428 │ online │ 5 │ 0s │ 0% │ 4.7 MB │ dev2rt987 │ disabled │ └──────────┴────┴─────────┴──────┴───────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴──────────┴───────────┴──────────┘
0|app | server is listening on port 4000
but when I open server from browser. Request dont come to the server. I checked 4000 port its open and listening on the server.
instead of the command: pm2 start app.js try this command: pm2 start ./bin/www
you should use the same line after the pm2 start as you have in the start script of your package.json file in the express app root folder
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