**ghost ls** not listing any sites

Developer help
1

ghost ls used to list the sites configured on my server - now it says there are no instances… and if I cat ~/.ghost/config the instances hash is empty, so I’m not sure what to put in there…

How do I get the ghost-cli to update the list of instances?

2

Is it possible that you changed your home directory or are using the incorrect user? If the config file gets corrupted, you have to manually add the instances back :grimacing:

Here’s an example config file:

{
  "instances": {
    "ghost-local": {
      "cwd": "/var/www/ghost/instance-a"
    },
    "ghost-local-1": {
      "cwd": "/var/www/ghost/instance-b"
    },
    "ghost-local-2": {
      "cwd": "/var/www/ghost/instance-c"
    },
    "ghost-local-3": {
      "cwd": "/var/www/ghost/test"
    }
  }
}
3

No - home folder has not changed, and I am using the correct user.

Thanks for the content - so its just a list of CWDs…

How does it get created and updated in the first place?