Like others, I’m having to reinstall and configure ghost for the new version. I’ve been using mariadb, but that breaks the latest Ghost. MySQL will not install in Ubuntu. If you follow the tutorial from Ghost, the installation of MySQL freezes and hangs. I’ve tried countless times and it’s a known …

Take a look at this [image] How to Migrate From MariaDB 10 to MySQL 8 Installation This how-to will guide you through the steps to migrate from MariaDB 10 to MySQL 8. Ghost 5+ requires MySQL 8, as it’s a breaking change , so upgrade now if you’re running Maria…

That really sucked for me too. I had to move my blog from Digital Ocean to Name Cheap!

I went a different route. I’m now using the official docker container which uses sqlite3. It works.

[image] boycottseattle.xyz: which uses sqlite3 Just be aware sqlite3 is intended for development use only. In Ghost 5.0 sqlite will only work in development mode.

Another thing to note is that the Ghost organization does not publish the Docker images, they’re maintained by the Docker Community.

MySQL is impossible to install!

Developer help Installation

mjw May 5, 2022, 8:15am 2

Take a look at this

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MySQL is impossible to install!

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