After successful custom Install, https://mydomain.com/ghost Not Found

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TL;DR: I Just ran the installation tutorial provided in How to install & setup Ghost on Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 or 22.04. But I had to skip NGINX and set reverse proxy through apache. The process outputs

 "Ghost was installed successfully! To complete setup of your publication, visit: https : // mysite dot  com /ghost.

(broken links on variious parts here because new users are only allowed to post 3 links)

However, this address returns Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server. Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) Server at mysite.com Port 443.

The installation process:

I already have an application running on apache reverse proxy, so I can’t have NGINX running because port 80 is already in use by apache. So I decided to go with the installation skipping NGINX and setting SSL by myself (although I’m kinda a rookie on that).

The installation process went smoothly. Then I created the file /etc/apache2/sites-available/ghost.conf (based on Apache Subdirectory Setup), without the subdirectory part:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    # Replace with your domain
    ServerName mysite dot com
    # Replace with your domain
    Redirect permanent / https : // mysite dot com 
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
    # Replace with your domain
    ServerName mysite.com 
        
    SSLProxyEngine on

    # Your SSL Certificate details. Replace with your own SSL setup
    # SSLCertificateFile /path/to/cert
    # SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/key;
 
</VirtualHost>

Then,

  1. sudo a2ensite ghost.conf
  2. sudo systemctl reload apache2
  3. sudo certbot --apache
  • selected my domain
  • option 2 -Redirect
  1. ghost setup (just to be sure).

So, I received:

Ghost was installed successfully! To complete setup of your publication, visit: 

   https : // mysite dot com / ghost/

If I visit https : // mysite dot com, I get the file structure of /var/www/mysite and if I visit https : // mysite dot com / ghost/ I get Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server. Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) Server at mysite dot com Port 443.

After this process, /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ghost.conf looks like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    # Replace with your domain
    ServerName mysite dot com
    # Replace with your domain
    Redirect permanent / https : // mysite dot com
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =mysite dot com
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
    # Replace with your domain
    ServerName mysite dot com
    ServerAdmin my email
    DocumentRoot /var/www/mysite
        
    SSLProxyEngine on

    # Your SSL Certificate details. Replace with your own SSL setup
    # SSLCertificateFile /path/to/cert
    # SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/key;

SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/mysite.com/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/mysite.com/privkey.pem
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
</VirtualHost>

What Could be wrong? As I said, I’m new to all these stuff. Any ideas will be super appreciated! ;-)

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Ok, maybe the question was too rookie for this forum. But I’ll leave here my solution as I’m sure there are a lot of rookies like my self here and it’ll be useful for future records.

The issue was I wasn’t properly doing reverse proxy on this config file. The final working config was:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    # Replace with your domain
    ServerName mysite dot com
    # Replace with your domain
    Redirect permanent / https://mysite dot com

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =mysite dot com
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
    # Replace with your domain
    ServerName mysite dot com
        
    SSLProxyEngine on
    ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:2369/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:2369/
    ProxyPreserveHost on
    RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"

   
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/mysite.com/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/mysite.com/privkey.pem
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
</VirtualHost>