Ghost Not Starting Due to content Folder Permissions

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Yep, there it is. Here’s the fixed version – your nesting was all weird.

{
  "url": "https://brianfajardo.com",
  "server": {
    "port": 2368,
    "host": "127.0.0.1"
  },
  "database": {
    "client": "mysql",
    "connection": {
      "host": "localhost",
      "user": "canquillo09",
      "password": "SOMETHING",
      "database": "brianfajardo_OLDprod"
    }
  },
  "mail": {
    "transport": "Direct"
  },
  "logging": {
    "path": "content/logs/",
    "useLocalTime": true,
    "level": "info",
    "rotation": {
      "enabled": true,
      "count": 15,
      "period": "1d",
      "transports": [
        "file",
        "stdout"
      ]
    }
  },
  "process": "systemd",
  "paths": {
    "contentPath": "/var/www/brianfajardo/content"
  }
}
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Thank you @Cathy_Sarisky and @vikaspotluri123 for your help!

After editing my weird nesting with the fixed version you provided Cathy, I ran into another error but I was able to fix it on my own by reverting the changes I made to the content folder ownership. I set it back to ghost using sudo chmod -R ghost:ghost content. I was running into a systemd error where ghost would not start at all. I hope the tip I left you helped in some way.

Cheers!

24

So it seems like the whole problem was a messed up config file? Do you have any sense of how it got messed up? I’m curious if this is user error, or a problem with an update script.

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And thanks! Much appreciated. :)

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Yes, it had to have gotten messed up when I was either adding the staff device verification feature JSON code or when adding the email config. I ended up deleting both since I was dealing with too many things at the same time. I felt I should have first tested adding one piece of the feature I want by stopping ghost and making changes, check if config is ok then start ghost again and if config checks then add the other features I want and so on and so forth. I’ll be sure to use the JSON prettifier you shared with me! :slight_smile: