Ghost Install Error - Failed Setting Up SSL: Failed to restart Nginx

[Russell_Jones]

So i’ve enabled development mode and checked the ports 80 and 443 are allowed. When I run ghost setup ssl I get SSL has already been set up, skipping ℹ Setting up SSL [skipped]. I’ve tried stopping the server and running but it made no difference.

I ran it as ghost setup --ssl based on something I saw when returning ghost ssl help, that seemed to work. All good for the naked (non www) domain.

I then had the issue of www not redirecting always or having an SSL cert. I eventually read that Ghost can only have one domain for SEO reasons and such so the process is as follows in this article.

SSL not on www after creating ghost installation in direct url (with no www what ever that is called)

Hey @mykleman I have a feeling you hit a snag with our documentation. You were absolutely in the right place with The point of those docs is to switch the URL in Ghost to the www. or other additional domain without restarting Ghost, use ghost setup ssl nginx to trigger generation of a certificate and the nginx files, and then edit them to just redirect. Which I think you did. However I think this line of the docs is where the issue is: # Edit the nginx config files for your second domain t…

I followed that advice but with the additional step of having to rename the following files to include ecc in them otherwise the config failed.

ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/www.mydomain.com_ecc/fullchain.cer;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/www.mydomain.com_ecc/www.bowiesensei.com.key;

No idea why it’s adding this ecc. I’m not sure if that’s an issue for DigitalOcean’s 1 click installer or for Ghost to resolve. My guess is DigitalOcean.

At first I didn’t know where to find those files but I then remembered where I’d seen them
/etc/nginx/sites-available

So I updated this thread with no responses to answer that.

How to edit nginx config files

Hi, I am a complete noob to Ghost and web development/terminal. I have set up my own Ghost blog using the one-click installation on Digital Ocean. I have created a CNAME record for my domain so I can use www. for my domain and see that I require a SSL cert for that also. I am following the SSL for additional domains. guide and am up to: # Edit the nginx config files for your second domain to redirect to your canonical domain. In both files replace the content of the first location block with…

Thanks for your help everyone, I really would have been stuck without it. I finally have the certificates working with www and non www versions.

Have a great week!