Debian Server will not start the bot

[wind marlin]

I have a server for my discord bots, to host my bots i use the package pm2.

When I hosted the first bot everything worked fine, but when I uploaded the 2nd bot, it no longer found the ./handlers folder, when I then tried further commands with pm2 the first bot also worked at some point (after 5 days of running time ) no longer. What is the reason and how can I fix this error? (The folder is in the same folder from which it is also called)

[outer quiver]

Hard to say without the rest of the error

Do pm2 log —lines 400 or so, notice it’s a double -

[onyx dew]

Tried to use readdir on ./handlers, but the path doesn’t exist

FS uses the current working directory for relative paths, not the folder of the file it’s called in

You should have the terminal set in the same directory as the folder that contains the package.json file, esp when running npm commands

[wind marlin]

Code from index.js

const { EmbedBuilder, Client, GatewayIntentBits, Partials, Collection } = require('discord.js');
const { token } = require("./config.json")
const client = new Client({
    intents: [
        
GatewayIntentBits.GuildScheduledEvents,

        GatewayIntentBits.Guilds, 
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages, 
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildPresences, 
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessageReactions, 
        
GatewayIntentBits.AutoModerationConfiguration,
        
GatewayIntentBits.AutoModerationExecution,
        GatewayIntentBits.DirectMessages,
        GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMembers
    ], 
    partials: [Partials.Channel, Partials.Message, Partials.User, Partials.GuildMember, Partials.Reaction] 
});

const fs = require('fs');
const config = require('./config.json');

client.commands = new Collection()
client.aliases = new Collection()
client.slashCommands = new Collection();
client.buttons = new Collection();
client.modals = new Collection();
client.selectMenus = new Collection();
client.prefix = config.prefix;

module.exports = client;


fs.readdirSync('./handlers').forEach((handler) => {
  require(`./handlers/${handler}`)(client)
});


client.login(token)```

it only stopped working after I uploaded the 2nd bot and tried to host it as well

[wind marlin]

so for example:

cd ./Ge747-Bot/
pm2 start index.js

and

cd second_bot
pm2 start index.js

?

and not

pm2 start ./Ge747-Bot/index.js

[outer quiver]

Yh

You wanna cd into each like, bot folder

Then start it

[outer quiver]

So cd if you went “dir” it wouid show all of this

[wind marlin]

it‘s the same, pm2 say its online but the bot is still offline

[outer quiver]

And what do the logs say

[wind marlin]

The same again

[wind marlin]

I have fixed this with this new index:

const { EmbedBuilder, Client, GatewayIntentBits, Partials, Collection } = require('discord.js');
const { token } = require("./config.json")
const client = new Client({
    intents: [
        
GatewayIntentBits.GuildScheduledEvents,

        GatewayIntentBits.Guilds, 
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages, 
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildPresences, 
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessageReactions, 
        
GatewayIntentBits.AutoModerationConfiguration,
        
GatewayIntentBits.AutoModerationExecution,
        GatewayIntentBits.DirectMessages,
        GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent,
        GatewayIntentBits.GuildMembers
    ], 
    partials: [Partials.Channel, Partials.Message, Partials.User, Partials.GuildMember, Partials.Reaction] 
});

const fs = require('fs');
const config = require('./config.json');
//require('dotenv').config() // remove this line if you are using replit

client.commands = new Collection()
client.aliases = new Collection()
client.slashCommands = new Collection();
client.buttons = new Collection();
client.modals = new Collection();
client.selectMenus = new Collection();
client.prefix = config.prefix;

module.exports = client;


fs.readdirSync('./Ge747-Bot/handlers').forEach((handler) => {
  require(`./Ge747-Bot/handlers/${handler}`)(client)
});


client.login(token)```

but I get this new error

[limber flame]

Assuming you followed what they said and you CD into the same folder index.js is, you need to update all your dir strings to remove 'Ge747-Bot'. For example your

fs.readdirSync('./Ge747-Bot/handlers').forEach((handler) => {
  require(`./Ge747-Bot/handlers/${handler}`)(client)
});

should now be

fs.readdirSync('./handlers').forEach((handler) => {
  require(`./handlers/${handler}`)(client)
});

Again this is assuming you are IN the 'Ge747-Bot' folder when starting the bot. If you have any other files referencing the 'Ge747-Bot' folder in its path, it will throw an error now.

[wind marlin]

This is what I has before…