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

Try adding the application setting PORT with the value of whatever port your app is listening on.

Ref: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/34451