My express app wont start

Hi there,

It sounds like that your nodejs user does not have access to the /root directory.

I’ve just tested running the project with the root user directly and it works well:

pm2 start app.js
[PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [app](ids: 0)
[PM2] [app](0) ✓
[PM2] Process successfully started

What you could do is:

• Run pm2 as the root user
• Alternatively, switch to the nodejs user, and git clone the project into the nodejs user’s home directory, that way the nmodejs user will be the owner of the files and would not have that permissions problem

Let me know how it goes!

Best,

Bobby