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Reload PM2 configuration file

I have problems with reloading PM2 configuration file after editing it:

{
    "apps": [
        ...
        {
            "name": "foo",
            "script": "foo/index.js",
            "cwd": "foo",
            "watch": false
        }
    ]
}

I previously did

pm2 restart config.json

and 

pm2 reload config.json

and

pm2 gracefulReload config.json

but they didn't reload the configuration for existing apps (the changes in app config did not apply). The only way that worked for me was:

pm2 delete foo
pm2 restart config.json

How is this supposed to be done?

Solution

  • As the reference states, configurations are no longer reloaded:

    Starting PM2 v2.1.X, environnements are immutable by default, that means they will never be updated unless you tell PM2 to do so, to update configurations, you will need to use --update-env options.

    So this should be

    pm2 startOrReload config.js --update-env