# Cannot login to ghost admin. "There was a problem on the server." message appears **URL:** \ **Category:** Developer help\ **Created:** [April 25, 2025, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/cannot-login-to-ghost-admin-there-was-a-problem-on-the-server-message-appears/57094 "2025-04-25T09:01:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![joe-blocher](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/joe-blocher/32/27872_2.png) [@joe-blocher](https://forum.ghost.org/u/joe-blocher)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/cannot-login-to-ghost-admin-there-was-a-problem-on-the-server-message-appears/57094/10 "2025-04-28T03:57:44Z")
Maybe this helps: > [@Unable to invite new admin users to account without mailgun setup?](https://forum.ghost.org/t/unable-to-invite-new-admin-users-to-account-without-mailgun-setup/56711/4): > > The configuration options in the documentation above only state: Configuring with Mailgun Amazon SES You don’t necessarily need Mailgun as a mail provider to invite any new staff … I miss a simple SMTP configuration. It would be good to specify this as well in the documentation: ... "mail": { "transport": "SMTP", "from": "website@domain.com", "options": { "host": "mail.domain.com", "port": 587, "auth": { "user": "user@domain.com", "pass": "1234" } } }, .… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.ghost.org/t/cannot-login-to-ghost-admin-there-was-a-problem-on-the-server-message-appears/57094)._