How to stop Node.js application using forever module on Windows?

I have gone through so many questions regarding forever module for nodejs APP, but did not find my answer.

Forever module is working fine on a Linux box but now I am putting my APP on Windows 7 and trying to run it with forever. First i installed forever module as

npm install forever -g

after that I ran my app as

forever start app.js

it's running fine by saying file app.js is running with forever and I am accessing my app successfully.

When I execute a command forever stop app.js I get the error

no forever file is running

Please suggest me if anyone has used forever on windows that how can I stop my application on Windows.

Solution 1:

use forever list then forever stop with the id, e.g. forever stop 0

Here is a sample output

user@some-server]$ forever list
info:    Forever processes running
data:        uid  command                                                  script forever pid   id logfile                          uptime        
data:    [0] 9Xzw ng serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 4009         13164   29579    /home/ec2-user/.forever/9Xzw.log 7:1:20:50.412 
data:    [1] wOj1 npm run-script app-start-dev                                    29500   24978    /home/ec2-user/.forever/wOj1.log 0:0:5:3.433

Here 0 is like an index which is in the first column of the output. If there are two processes running, we can use indexes like 0 or 1 to stop the first or the second process.

forever stop 0 OR forever stop 1

Solution 2:

I had this same issue and found that it was because I was running forever start with sudo (on Linux) so that I could run a production site on port 80. This did the trick:

sudo forever list

Solution 3:

This is just to expand on @laktak's answer. The result of forever list on Windows will look something like this:

info:    Forever processes running
data:        uid  command              script                          forever p
id   id logfile                               uptime
data:    [0] an1b "C:\nodejs\node.exe" C:\sbSerialWidget\server.js 8780    1
0152    C:\Users\username\.forever\an1b.log STOPPED

I wasn't sure which one was the ID initially, but I figured out that it was the first entry after the second data field above, so the line you're interested in is with the ID bolded & italicized:

data: [0] an1b C:\nodejs\node.exe C:\sbSerialWidget\server.js 8780 1 0152 C:\Users\username.forever\an1b.log STOPPED

So to stop this particular instance, you'd run:

forever stop 0

Hope this helps someone else who was confused like I was