On a free-tier Amazon EC2 instance, I set up a simple node.js Hello World app running on express.
If I run npm start, my app runs fine and I can hit it from my browser, and I see the following output:
> [email protected] start /home/ec2-user/app
> node ./bin/www
I have installed the forever tool globally. When I run forever start app.js, I see:
warn: --minUptime not set. Defaulting to: 1000ms
warn: --spinSleepTime not set. Your script will exit if it does not stay up for at least 1000ms
info: Forever processing file: app/app.js
However, when I check forever list, I see that the process has stopped:
info: Forever processes running
data: uid command script forever pid id logfile uptime
data: [0] 2v0J /usr/local/bin/node app.js 2455 2457 /home/ec2-user/.forever/2v0J.log STOPPED
This is the only message in the log: error: Forever detected script was killed by signal: null
I'm unable to find any other log information. Why does it keep immediately stopping?
EDIT: I tried running it as nohup forever start app.js and got the same problem. I'm running the forever start and the forever list in the same ssh session, one after the other. The app's process seems to stop immediately.
I was able to resolve my problem thanks to this answer on a similar question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24914916/1791634
The process kept running when I used forever start ./bin/www instead of passing app.js
It remains to be seen whether this causes any trouble down the road.