Configure PM2

Configure PM2

by John Vincent


Posted on August 9, 2018


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Install PM2

For details, please see Install PM2)

Please see section Start PM2 on System Startup. This ensures that PM2 will be automatically restarted on system start.

Configure PM2

~/bin/handle-pm2

#!/bin/bash
#
# script to add task to pm2 if not already added, or to restart
# the task if it has already been added.
#
echo "Current PM2 status"
pm2 list
#
echo "Check status of task"
pm2 describe server > /dev/null
RUNNING=$? 
if [ "${RUNNING}" -ne 0 ]; then
  echo "Adding task to PM2"
  cd /var/www/music/server
  pm2 start server.js
else
  echo "Restarting task"
  pm2 restart server
fi;

#
echo "Show current pm2 status"
pm2 list

echo "Restarting PM2"
pm2 restart all

This file is invoked from the deploy scripts.

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