Running pm2 deploy production setup

[wetherallCode]

When I run pm2 deploy production setup I get this in return

--> Deploying to production environment
--> on host 67.205.178.187
○ hook pre-setup
deploy@67.205.178.187's password:
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/Users’: Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/Users’: Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/Users’: Permission denied

setup paths failed

Deploy failed

Why does this happen?

[YChafik]

I have the same issue on my AWS EC2 remote server. Any news?

[MichalZalecki]

I had path : '$HOME/www/app and changing to path : '/home/deployer/www/app fiexed the issue

[coderavels]

You are trying to create the directory at the root level which is not permitted. Try changing the path to something like '/home/ec2-user/Users'.

To determine the actual folder path, ssh into your ec2 instance and run cd /home && ls. You will get to know the the folder under /home where you can create the directory (ec2-user for me).

[ismailkader]

when i install forever with the command "# npm install -g forever", i got this "▐ ╢░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░╟
WARN engine forever@3.0.2: wanted: {"node":">=6"} (current: {"node":"4.2.6","npm":"3.5.2"})
loadDep:yargs → 200 ▀ ╢██████████████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░╟
npm WARN deprecated chokidar@2.1.8: Chokidar 2 will break on node v14+. Upgrade to chokidar 3 with 15x less dependencies.
npm WARN deprecated urix@0.1.0: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated resolve-url@0.2.1: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated
loadDep:urix ▐ ╢█████████████████████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░╟
/usr/local/bin/forever -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/forever/bin/forever
/usr/local/lib
└── forever@3.0.2

npm WARN optional Skipping failed optional dependency /forever/chokidar/fsevents:
npm WARN notsup Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: fsevents@1.2.13