i need help using pm2

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Whiteleg shrimp posted this in #help-forum

Whiteleg shrimpOP

2023-09-02T10:11:08.000Z

so i'm trying to use pm2 on my next js project, managed to use it bu running pm2 start ./node_modules/next/dist/bin/next --name "appName"
but i want to set port

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joulev

2023-09-02T16:04:39.000Z

idk about pm2 but if you want to set the port name i think you can set the PORT env var or use --port

./node_modules/next/dist/bin/next --name "appName" --port 8080

European sprat

2023-09-02T16:30:56.000Z

yeah i explained this the other day but they never mentioned if it worked or not

if --port 8080 doesn't work, try what i had originally said

PORT=8080 pm2 start ./node_modules/next/dist/bin/next --name "appName"

Whiteleg shrimpOP

2023-09-02T18:59:30.000Z

they both do not work

European sprat

2023-09-02T19:58:24.000Z

I guess you're out of luck then

Another solution could be directly modifying the server files where the port is defined but that's out of scope and unsupported

The alternative is use a standalone build which uses nodejs to run the server and you can easily set the port