Deployment issue on render

[ar-rehman786]

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My MERN app works fine locally, but after deploying the backend to Render, API requests return 404. What could be the issue?

[Rehman-942]

It could be of many reasons. can you share little more detail

[ar-rehman786]

I don't know. I just delpoy and it is giving this error

[Rehman-942]

I will give you some steps. May be 1 of its works. check all

• Make sure your backend routes are correctly prefixed (e.g., /api/users).
• Confirm your server is listening on the correct port (process.env.PORT or default).
• Double-check that your start script in package.json actually runs the server.
• Look at Render logs for errors or missing files.
• If using Express with React in the same repo, ensure static file serving is disabled when deploying backend-only.

[ar-rehman786]

It works. it was issue of /api