Hi, I recently had to restore my server which of course meant I have to restart ghost. This backup was only from 2 days ago so nothing was lost thankfully. However, when running ghost start I get the below output: + sudo systemctl is-active ghost_www-jmurray-me :heavy_check_mark: Ensuring user is…

Howdy @jbm1991 ! Looks like Ghost is trying to use port 8000, do you already have something else running on that port number? :slightly_smiling_face:

Hey! I do not have anything else running on this server at all, only ghost. Presumably though if something was running on 8000 then ghost run would fail?

Not exactly… ghost start is designed to make sure your Ghost instance starts before the command exits. It does this by launching a lightweight listener on port 8000 (or the closest open port) and waiting for the Ghost Instance to say “Hey, I’ve started” before removing the listener. ghost run is th…

Can you please share the contents of your config.production.json file, and also the nginx configs found in system/files?

I have the same problem, here is the result of doing journalctl -u ghost_blog-snowfrog-dev -n 50: -- Logs begin at Thu 2019-08-15 02:49:12 UTC, end at Wed 2020-10-21 19:20:59 UTC. -- Oct 21 19:14:07 ghost-s-1vcpu-1gb-tor1-01 node[5173]: at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ghost-c…

Can you try running which nodejs and which node and see if they produce different paths?

You have multiple node versions installed. Take a look at this SE thread: [Blaze Tama] node & nodejs have different version nodejs asked by Blaze Tama on 04:29PM - 07 Nov 15 UTC

[image] vikaspotluri123: You have multiple node versions installed. Take a look at this SE thread: askubuntu.com [Blaze Tama] node & nodejs have different version nodejs Thank you, this solved it for me.

`ghost run` works, `ghost start` does not

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snowfrog October 21, 2020, 10:53pm 8

They do.

# which nodejs
/usr/bin/nodejs
# which node
/usr/local/bin/node

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`ghost run` works, `ghost start` does not

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