I just ran ‘ghost update’ with the cli and am now on v6! Whoo hoo! However, once I clicked past the onboarding screens in Network, I’m getting the “Loading interrupted” error. I saw mention in the changelog that self hosters could use activitypub, but I must be missing a step somewhere?

To follow up on my original problem on my Ghost-CLI install using Ghost’s hosted ActivityPub, the missing piece for me after sorting out the nginx bits above was that I have my admin dashboard on a separate subdomain from the main site, which means that I needed to add a redirect from not-admin-site…

Yeah, so far I’ve just traded 404 errors for 503 errors. laughing Right, well, I’m on 6.0 without the new features. Back to paying work. Self-hosting. Still not for wimps.

I haven’t tried it myself, but it’s possible that ap.ghost.org is not ready yet. I (well, a customer) have experienced the same with the new Explore API/writing a testimonial through Ghost. That also just returned a 404. 503 could also make sense for that, in case ap.ghost.org has a proxy, but no s…

I think at this point I’m proxying correctly. @acburdine was kind enough to point me at the PR showing how my nginx config needed to change, here: Added activitypub path to nginx by rmgpinto · Pull Request #1963 · TryGhost/Ghost-CLI · GitHub (My previous attempt was not quite the same, and apparen…

Apologies, in my clean up process, I lost a bit that belonged here, from @DIYBrad , because it was the jumping off point for a different discussion. Here’s what @DIYBrad wrote: I’ve attempted to proxy to Ghost as well using nginx example but also get 503/401 errors.

Yep me too [2025-08-09 14:25:54] ERROR Could not get webhook secret for ActivityPub FetchError: invalid json response body at https://jilles.me/.ghost/activitypub/v1/site reason: Unexpected token '<', "<!DOCTYPE "... is not valid JSON [2025-08-09 14:25:54] ERROR No webhook secret found - cannot ini…

[image] Jilles_Soeters: https://jilles.me/ I peeked at your site and got an nginx error, so you must be working on things right now. :slight_smile: What fixed my problem was getting the redirect working and then restarting Ghost, so I’m hoping the same will be true for you! :slight_smile:

I updated nginx but now just getting [2025-08-09 14:53:44] ERROR No webhook secret found - cannot initialiseS So I can’t even start Ghost

I think you’ve got a separate problem in your nginx config. That error didn’t stop Ghost from starting up for me. What does ghost ls show? Is it running, but nginx can’t connect, perhaps?

[image] After updating Ghost, I noticed the new Networking tab in Ghost Admin. When I open it the first time it loads, but if I click Network again I only see “Loading Interrupted.” Any ideas if this is still WIP or if I’ve misconfigured something? Setup Hosting: Self-hosted Proxy: Nginx …

You absolutely need nginx changes. It doesn’t work without them. :slight_smile: There’s a link up thread, but here it is again: Added activitypub path to nginx by rmgpinto · Pull Request #1963 · TryGhost/Ghost-CLI · GitHub

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