How access config.production.json?

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Hello, community
I try to access config.production.json file (want to add parameters of Mailgun) and get an error that “there is no such directory”
What i did and what i have to do:

  • installed ghost blog
  • digital ocean droplet
  • i open root console
  • do everything like here Config.production.json
  • but after cd /var/www/ghost i got message “No such files in directory”.
  1. What i’m doing wrong?
  2. Maybe it’s connected with my root-user? I should switch to any other role?
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Could you please type ‘ghost ls’ from the command line (as the ghost user)? Hopefully that’ll help you figure out where Ghost is actually installed. :)

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What i see in console:

user@ghostonubuntu2204-s-1vcpu-2gb-ams3-01:~$ ghost ls
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No installed ghost instances found

And it look strange as my site is already working

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I also tried another command, but it also doesn’t allow to switch directory and get config file

user@ghostonubuntu2204-s-1vcpu-2gb-ams3-01:~$ which ghost
/usr/bin/ghost
user@ghostonubuntu2204-s-1vcpu-2gb-ams3-01:~$ cd usr/bin/
-bash: cd: usr/bin/: No such file or directory

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You appear to be running these commands as the user named ‘user’. Is that actually the user you used when setting up Ghost?

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Cathy, i did setup at Digital Ocean droplet regarding this manual:

Thus, setup was made under root user. But console ask me to change user to any other.

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Oh, i’ve found the problem. You were right about another user. I forgot about “ghost-mgr” user that was created right after first steps of the “root” user.

I’ve opened cd /var/www/ghost, but can’t understand (sorry for one more newbie question) how open config file right from directory. I opened it, but with another command “sudo nano /var/www/ghost/config.production.json”.

Just interesting how to make it inside directory) And thank you so much for your support.

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Nano is a simple text editor, so you should be able to edit your config file that way.

Did you find the location of the file? You can change to the ghost-mgr user using su - ghost-mgr and then ghost ls should give you the directory of the ghost install. Then you can cd <path-to-directory> and edit the file with nano.

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But please allow me the last question - how can i launch Nano and launch certain file insde directory?

10

I’m sorry, I don’t understand your question. Can you explain what you’re trying to do a bit more?

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Just wonder what is the Linux command to open json file in editor when i’m already inside directory

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sudo nano thenameofyourfile.json

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Thanks a lot, it helped!!!