Support PM2 for the "Restart NodeBB" button

[PitaJ]

I'm pretty sure you already support restarting in Forever, but I prefer the features of PM2.

If you could even just point to where in the code you call the restart command, that would be awesome.

I know it is something related to the admin.restart event.

The command to restart when using pm2 is pm2 restart app.js

Thanks.

[julian]

@pitaj Are you using clustering with pm2, or just running one process? Either way, try running loader.js from pm2 instead of app.js.

[PitaJ]

Just one process, I think that using loader.js worked.

[PitaJ]

@pitaj @julian Cancel that last post. If I use loader.js, pm2 restart doesn't work correctly. It starts up fine, but restart never stops the process, so the files and plugins are not reloaded.

So this post is officially unsolved

[PitaJ]

@julian @psychobunny - Is there a hook for this? There isn't one documented. Because if there was, I could make a plugin. If there isn't, where in the core code is it located? I'd like to modify this for myself in some way to get it to work. Thanks.

[julian]

If you're using pm2 loader.js, you should use the restart button in the ACP to restart NodeBB...

(... or ideally, don't use PM2 at all, since the loader supercedes it. Just: ./nodebb start)

[PitaJ]

@julian said:

If you're using pm2 loader.js, you should use the restart button in the ACP to restart NodeBB...

I was dag nabbit.

(... or ideally, don't use PM2 at all, since the loader supercedes it. Just: ./nodebb start)

But I like to use pm2 because I use it for all of my other task management needs. Where in the code would it be?