Start multiple Nuxtjs projects with pm2 on Digital Ocean

Question

I have several projects inside a Digital Ocean Droplet proxied with nginx and i want to start all of them with pm2, i saw i can achieve that with a .json file with the names and scripts inside, but it doesn't seem to be working, this is what i did:

My droplet directory with the projects:

project1

project2

pm2-apps.json

pm2-apps.json

{
  "apps": [
    {
      "name": "project1",
      "script": "./project1/package.json"
    },
    {
      "name": "project2",
      "script": "./project2/package.json"
    },
  ]
}

then i run

pm2 start pm2-apps.json

and i get

but then i enter the url, the project doesnt seem to be correctly mounted, if i run each one apart with pm2 start npm -- start inside the project folder, it works.

Answer 1

Had to test this, and found a couple of issue you might be having, presuming you have nginx is correctly setup.

I had to change the file to the following:

{
  "apps": [
    {
      "name": "project1",
      "cwd": "./project1",
      "script": "/usr/bin/npm",
      "args": "run dev"
    },
    {
      "name": "project2",
      "cwd": "./project2",
      "script": "/usr/bin/npm",
      "args": "run dev"
    }
  ]
}

oddly "script": "npm", was not enough as was SIGINT'ing which I could see from using pm2 monit

then in each of the projects, I changed the nuxt port:

nuxt.config.js

  ...
  server: {
    port: 3001, // project1
    host: '0.0.0.0', // default: localhost
  },
  ...

and

  ...
  server: {
    port: 3002, // project2
    host: '0.0.0.0', // default: localhost
  },
  ...

then clear out pm2.. pm2 delete all

then run from within the folder:

pm2 start pm2-apps.json

Both apps then start without issue..