Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/app/core/server/public/ghost.min.css'

[tomm]

Hi, I’m running ghost compiled from source into a custom docker container (I didn’t want the automatic git updates for stability reasons), and I’m seeing this error pretty often in the logs:

[2021-11-03 00:59:29] ERROR “GET /{site name}/public/ghost.min.css?v=192afabab3” 500 5ms

ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/app/core/server/public/ghost.min.css’

Error ID:
4c8491a0-3c41-11ec-aa48-e965a6e18cb7

Error Code:
ENOENT

---

–
at /app/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:284:7
at Function.process_params (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:335:12)
at next (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:275:10)
at Layer.handle_error (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:67:12)
at trim_prefix (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:315:13)
at /app/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:284:7
at Function.process_params (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:335:12)

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/app/core/server/public/ghost.min.css’

[2021-11-03 00:59:29] ERROR “GET /{site name}/public/ghost.min.css?v=192afabab3” 500 3ms

ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/app/core/server/public/ghost.min.css’

Error ID:
4c9114c0-3c41-11ec-aa48-e965a6e18cb7

Error Code:
ENOENT

Any ideas? No errors are thrown 99%+ of the time or perhaps even 99.5% of the time, but even seeing this error occasionally is disconcerting. Thanks!

[Hannah]

Sounds like you have missed some steps in building Ghost from source as one of the files hasn’t been generated.

I’ve pushed a change that will make this 404 rather than error, but you still need to make sure you follow all the steps for installing.

[tomm]

Thanks for the hint, I did indeed miss a step: grunt postcss. And now I kind of understand why it would throw a 5xx error since it’s kind of a server misconfiguration, and ghost.css works just fine even if it’s not minified.