Container xyz didn't respond to HTTP pings on port: 8080, failing site start.

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Container xyz didn't respond to HTTP pings on port: 8080, failing site start.

Tejas Morkar 51

I have a simple node.js app that runs a discord bot using discord.js library. This node app does not require any request or query to run, but when I deployed it to the Azure App Services on a Linux environment, it starts perfectly and then shuts down in a few seconds with an error saying - Container didn't respond to HTTP pings on port: 8080, failing site start.

I just added express and made the app respond with "Hello World" on HTTP ping by listening to 8080 port. Now there is no such error and it runs fine.

So is there any other fix for this without needing to listen to port 8080?

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Ryan Hill 30,281 Microsoft Employee Moderator

Hi @Tejas Morkar ,

App Service looks for a listening port to bind to, so it knows where to forward the web requests. It looks to me that a continuous web job would be better fit to run your node app. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/webjobs-create and https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/WebJobs for more details.

If you run into issues or need any further clarification, please feel free to comment down below.

Regards,
Ryan

Tejas Morkar 51 Reputation points

2021-03-15T19:14:19.377+00:00

Thanks for the quick answer.

I was looking into webjobs as suggested by you. On azure portal it asks to upload a zip file in webjobs.
My nodejs project has index.js and a few other files like package.json and node_modules folder. What should I upload for the webjob? I have created a new Windows based app service and have deployed nothing to it yet.
Ryan Hill 30,281 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2021-03-16T03:21:04.417+00:00

You can zip the contents of your dist folder or whatever your build output is set to and drop that as a webjob.

Regards,
Ryan
Tejas Morkar 51 Reputation points

2021-03-16T12:14:34.317+00:00

Thanks for the help!
It's working as expected now. I just zipped the node_modules folder and index.js file and uploaded it to the webjob.

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