Ghost Logging not working

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I’m trying to use Ghost as an express app and the logging does not seem to work. I have enabled transports: ["stdout", "file"] but the files are blank and nothing is on stdout.

Here’s how I am starting Ghost (modified from original index.js):

debug('Initialising Ghost');
ghost().then(function (ghostServer) {
    // Mount our Ghost instance on our desired subdirectory path if it exists.
    parentApp.use(urlService.utils.getSubdir(), ghostServer.rootApp);
    ghostServer.logStartMessages();
});


createServer(parentApp).listen();

With the .logStartMessages() call above I see the startup messages (“press ctrl+c to stop”, etc) but nothing after that. Nothing in files or logs.

Is there something else that needs to be initialized? Any hints on using Ghost 3 as an express app?

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Running Ghost as an express app is not supported. What is the end goal that you’re trying to achieve?

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The end result should be a Search feature (via express), a mostly static landing page, and the ghost blog on /blogs. I was wanting to compose them all as a single node application and route it through nginx unit for the benefits of TLS offloading, serving static content, etc.

I could certainly set up proxies, etc, for all of the above but I’ve found posts on these forums and other places that described using Ghost as an express app. I did not realize it was unsupported. It does seem to work without issue except that I see no logs.

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Just as an update for future Googlers, Ghost as an express app and express apps with Ghost both work as expected and seems to be called out as a usage in the comments of ghost-server.js

The logging problem I seem to be having seems to be somehow related to nginx unit. :thinking: