Node.js/Express.js App Only Works on Port 3000

Question

I have a Node.js/Express.js app running on my server that only works on port 3000 and I\'m trying to figure out why. Here\'s what I\'ve found:

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Answer 1

The line you found just looks for the environmental variable PORT, if it's defined it uses it, otherwise uses the default port 3000. You have to define this environmental variable first (no need to be root)

export PORT=8080
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