Ghost is not installing

Developer help
1

Hi,
I am trying to install ghost in my server but it showing this type of issues. How can I solve this?

eghost@ghost:/var/www/newsportal$ ghost install --db=sqlite3
✔ Checking system Node.js version
✔ Checking logged in user
✖ Checking current folder permissions
✔ Checking operating system compatibility
✔ Checking memory availability
One or more errors occurred.

1) Checking current folder permissions

Message: The directory /var/www/newsportal is not writable by your user. You must grant write access and try again.
Help: https://ghost.org/docs/install/ubuntu/#create-a-directory

Debug Information:
    OS: Ubuntu, v16.04.6 LTS
    Node Version: v10.13.0
    Ghost-CLI Version: 1.14.0
    Environment: production
    Command: 'ghost install --db=sqlite3'

Try running ghost doctor to check your system for known issues.

You can always refer to https://ghost.org/docs/api/ghost-cli/ for troubleshooting.
2

Did you read the linked articles, and try running ghost doctor as it says in the output?

3

Hey seems its permission issue…
Make sure the user(eghost) is in sudo group & the user have write permission on ghost folder(newsporta)

4

I tried. It is showing this issue

eghost@ghost:/var/www/newsportal$ ghost doctor
An error occurred.
Message: 'ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat '/var/www/newsportal/content''


Debug Information:
    OS: Ubuntu, v16.04.6 LTS
    Node Version: v10.13.0
    Ghost-CLI Version: 1.14.0
    Environment: production
    Command: 'ghost doctor'

Additional log info available in: /home/eghost/.ghost/logs/ghost-cli-debug-2020-06-05T10_22_04_022Z.log

Try running ghost doctor to check your system for known issues.

You can always refer to https://ghost.org/docs/api/ghost-cli/ for troubleshooting.
5

The user that is installing ghost needs permission to write to the folder

Can you confirm that you followed the steps outlined here?

6

I installed ghost but it is not starting. It is showing database error.
Can you check please?

eghost@ghost:/var/www/newsportal$ ghost start
+ sudo systemctl is-active ghost_newsportal-electronthemes-ghost-com
✔ Ensuring user is not logged in as ghost user
✔ Checking if logged in user is directory owner
✔ Checking current folder permissions
+ sudo systemctl is-active ghost_newsportal-electronthemes-ghost-com
✔ Validating config
✔ Checking folder permissions
✔ Checking file permissions
✔ Checking content folder ownership
✔ Checking memory availability
✔ Checking binary dependencies
+ sudo systemctl start ghost_newsportal-electronthemes-ghost-com
+ sudo systemctl stop ghost_newsportal-electronthemes-ghost-com
✖ Starting Ghost: newsportal-electronthemes-ghost-com
A GhostError occurred.

Message: SQLITE_CANTOPEN: unable to open database file
Help: Unknown database error
Suggestion: journalctl -u ghost_newsportal-electronthemes-ghost-com -n 50

Debug Information:
    OS: Ubuntu, v16.04.6 LTS
    Node Version: v10.13.0
    Ghost Version: 3.18.1
    Ghost-CLI Version: 1.14.0
    Environment: production
    Command: 'ghost start'

Additional log info available in: /home/eghost/.ghost/logs/ghost-cli-debug-2020-06-06T04_13_22_669Z.log

Try running ghost doctor to check your system for known issues.

You can always refer to https://ghost.org/docs/api/ghost-cli/ for troubleshooting.
7

Please take a look at this :smile:

1 Like