Latest ghost upgrade required Node v18 - now won't start

[akash47]

Hello,

I was trying to upgrade to the latest version of Ghost 5.71.0

This required node v18. (I was previously on 16). I followed the guide here -:

Supported node versions for self-hosted installs of Ghost

My site is down since. Here are few screenshots

1/
Output of ghost update after the node update to v18

2/
Output of ghost doctor

How do I fix this?

Thank you

[Cathy_Sarisky]

Upgrade ghost 5.71.0 with node 18, encountered error

Node 18 prefers ipv6 resolution over ipv4 - you can see this in the error message with the MySQL connection ::1:3306. If your MySQL server isn’t listening on the ipv6 interface then node won’t be able to connect to it. Quickest fix is probably explicitly specifying 127.0.0.1 for your database host in place of localhost in your Ghost config.

[akash47]

Cathy!

Out there solving all my issues

Thank you!