Azure Web App on Linux: “Error: Container didn't respond to HTTP pings on port: 8080” - when using: “start”: “pm2 start server.js”

Question

My App Service Linux instance crashes if my node app is using the start script: \"start\": \"pm2 start server.js\":

2019-04-15 11:36:34.432 ERRO         


        

Answer 1

I was having the same issue. When I changed the code in my server.js file to the below it succesfully ran:

const port = process.env.port || 8080;

After redeploying to Azure it is now working.