# Help needed: Apache & SSL error

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/help-needed-apache-ssl-error/42104>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [October 22, 2023, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/help-needed-apache-ssl-error/42104 "2023-10-22T10:27:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Dev\_Talan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/dev_talan/32/26950_2.png) [@Dev\_Talan](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Dev_Talan)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2023, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/help-needed-apache-ssl-error/42104/1 "2023-10-22T10:27:35Z")

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I installed ghost on my personal hosting, everything else works fine till now, except the preview in settings, no preview is loading for anything and at this point I am quite confused. I tried almost everything. Here is my website - [https://blog.devtalan.com/](https://blog.devtalan.com/) , I thing I have some problem in my configurations. Please let me know if you guys know how to fix this.

```auto
{
  "url": "https://blog.devtalan.com/",
  "server": {
    "port": 2370,
    "host": "127.0.0.1"
  },
  "database": {
    "client": "mysql",
    "connection": {
      "host": "localhost",
      "user": DATABASE_USER,
      "password": DATABASE_PASSWORD,
      "database": DATABASE_NAME
    }
  },
  "mail": {
    "transport": "Direct"
  },
  "logging": {
    "transports": [
      "file",
      "stdout"
    ]
  },
  "process": "local",
  "paths": {
    "contentPath": "/home/devtalan/Ghost/content"
  }
}

```

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**Author:** ![vdrive6](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/vdrive6/32/24309_2.png) [@vdrive6](https://forum.ghost.org/u/vdrive6)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2023, 11:03am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/help-needed-apache-ssl-error/42104/2 "2023-10-22T11:03:09Z")

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What installation method you’ve used? did you follow the [official docs](https://ghost.org/docs/install/ubuntu/) about installing Ghost on self-host?

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**Author:** ![Dev\_Talan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/dev_talan/32/26950_2.png) [@Dev\_Talan](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Dev_Talan)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2023, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/help-needed-apache-ssl-error/42104/3 "2023-10-22T12:56:37Z")

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its self-host actually, one more thing to mention its shared hosting and its apache server.

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**Author:** ![Cathy\_Sarisky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/cathy_sarisky/32/25750_2.png) [@Cathy\_Sarisky](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Cathy_Sarisky)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/help-needed-apache-ssl-error/42104/4 "2023-10-22T14:55:03Z")

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If you open your browser’s dev tools (f12) and go to the console log, any errors?

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**Author:** ![Dev\_Talan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/dev_talan/32/26950_2.png) [@Dev\_Talan](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Dev_Talan)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2023, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/help-needed-apache-ssl-error/42104/5 "2023-10-22T15:11:39Z")

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Good Catch, I literally forgot about checking console.  
This showed up in console, got any idea about this ?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/3X/f/e/fed8731c2a62fa53f7ad19c2e0b5f228557e3b3b.png)

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**Author:** ![Cathy\_Sarisky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/cathy_sarisky/32/25750_2.png) [@Cathy\_Sarisky](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Cathy_Sarisky)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/help-needed-apache-ssl-error/42104/6 "2023-10-22T15:33:32Z")

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That looks like your Apache making trouble, not Ghost…,

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**Author:** ![Dev\_Talan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/dev_talan/32/26950_2.png) [@Dev\_Talan](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Dev_Talan)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/help-needed-apache-ssl-error/42104/7 "2023-10-22T15:49:46Z")

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I tried looking into it, I found that this is caused chiefly by SSL, also when I was installing Ghost it skipped that SSL step because nginx was not present.

Also, I have seen many people use ghost with Apache server before, I am confused about how they achieved it. Well, are you sure about my configuration, or do I need to change the host and port under the server, I am quite unsure what to put in there so I left is as it was.

Or I guess I will have to make some changes myself in the configuration to achieve this, If you have some Ideas let me know.