error Error: Missing api folder. Please create one in your app root directory

[Rojasking700]

i get this error when running on an Azure server.

Container patriotstorm-backend_0_819cdb35 couldn't be started: Logs = 2021-12-28T20:08:19.917920249Z 2021-12-28T20:08:19.917989950Z > @madeinusa/b******@0.1.0 start /usr/src/app 2021-12-28T20:08:19.917998750Z > strapi start 2021-12-28T20:08:19.918003450Z 2021-12-28T20:08:21.588872548Z [2021-12-28T20:08:21.587Z] debug ⛔️ Server wasn't able to start properly. 2021-12-28T20:08:21.590885059Z [2021-12-28T20:08:21.590Z] error Error: Missing api folder. Please create one in your app root directory 2021-12-28T20:08:21.590909859Z at module.exports (/usr/src/app/node_modules/strapi/lib/core/load-apis.js:13:11) 2021-12-28T20:08:21.590916459Z at module.exports (/usr/src/app/node_modules/strapi/lib/core/load-modules.js:25:5) 2021-12-28T20:08:21.590921559Z at Strapi.load (/usr/src/app/node_modules/strapi/lib/Strapi.js:329:27) 2021-12-28T20:08:21.590925959Z at Strapi.start (/usr/src/app/node_modules/strapi/lib/Strapi.js:196:20) 2021-12-28T20:08:21.590940459Z at module.exports (/usr/src/app/node_modules/strapi/lib/commands/start.js:8:33) 2021-12-28T20:08:21.590945759Z at /usr/src/app/node_modules/strapi/bin/strapi.js:50:14 2021-12-28T20:08:21.590950259Z at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:95:5) 2021-12-28T20:08:21.607015248Z npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE 2021-12-28T20:08:21.609638362Z npm ERR! errno 1 2021-12-28T20:08:21.619969919Z npm ERR! @madeinusa/b******@0.1.0 start: strapi start 2021-12-28T20:08:21.620848424Z npm ERR! Exit status 1 2021-12-28T20:08:21.621758929Z npm ERR! 2021-12-28T20:08:21.628099564Z npm ERR! Failed at the @madeinusa/b******@0.1.0 start script. 2021-12-28T20:08:21.628118264Z npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

here is my docker file
`FROM node:14.17.6-alpine as alpine

Create app directory

RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/app
WORKDIR /usr/src/app

ARG NODE_ENV
ENV NODE_ENV=${NODE_ENV}
ARG ENVIRONMENT
ENV ENVIRONMENT=${ENVIRONMENT}

Install app dependencies

COPY ./package*.json ./
COPY ./package-lock.json ./
COPY . ./

--build-arg NODE_ENV=production

RUN echo $ENVIRONMENT | base64 -d > .env
RUN cat .env

ENV SHARP_VERSION 0.24.1
RUN npm config set unsafe-perm true
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1

RUN apk add --update --no-cache g++ make python2 curl tar gtk-doc gobject-introspection expat-dev glib-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-turbo-dev giflib-dev librsvg-dev && ln -sf python2 /usr/bin/python

#Compile Vips and Sharp
RUN apk --no-cache add libpng librsvg libgsf giflib libjpeg-turbo musl
&& apk add libimagequant-dev --repository=http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main
&& apk add vips-dev fftw-dev build-base --update-cache --repository https://alpine.global.ssl.fastly.net/alpine/edge/testing/ --repository https://alpine.global.ssl.fastly.net/alpine/edge/main
&& apk --no-cache add --virtual .build-dependencies g++ make python2 curl tar gtk-doc gobject-introspection expat-dev glib-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-turbo-dev giflib-dev librsvg-dev && ln -sf python2 /usr/bin/python

&& su node \

&& npm install sharp@${SHARP_VERSION} --g --production --unsafe-perm \

&& chown node:node /usr/local/lib/node_modules -R \

&& apk del .build-dependencies

RUN python2 -m ensurepip
RUN pip2 install --no-cache --upgrade pip setuptools

RUN npm install
RUN NODE_ENV=$NODE_ENV npm run build

EXPOSE 80 1337/tcp
EXPOSE 80 1337/udp

CMD [ "npm", "run", "start" ]`

[itancc]

I have the same problem. How did you solve it