Permission Denied Error while upgrading ghost

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1

Hi Team,

I tried to update ghost to the latest version and got below error

Message: ‘EACCES: permission denied, mkdir ‘/var/www/.ghost’’

My blog url : https://plezna.com

:heavy_multiplication_x: Checking for deprecations
An error occurred.
Message: ‘EACCES: permission denied, mkdir ‘/var/www/.ghost’’

Debug Information:
OS: Ubuntu, v18.04.4 LTS
Node Version: v14.17.1
Ghost Version: 3.16.1
Ghost-CLI Version: 1.17.3
Environment: production
Command: ‘ghost doctor’
A promise was rejected but did not have a .catch() handler:
Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir ‘/var/www/.ghost/logs’
at Object.mkdirSync (fs.js:1009:3)
at Object.module.exports.makeDirSync (/usr/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/node_modules/fs-extra/lib/mkdirs/make-dir.js:101:15)
at System.writeErrorLog (/usr/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/system.js:361:12)
at UI.error (/usr/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/ui/index.js:462:40)
at Function._run (/usr/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/command.js:195:16)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:95:5)
/usr/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/bootstrap.js:27
throw reason;
^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir ‘/var/www/.ghost/logs’
at Object.mkdirSync (fs.js:1009:3)
at Object.module.exports.makeDirSync (/usr/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/node_modules/fs-extra/lib/mkdirs/make-dir.js:101:15)
at System.writeErrorLog (/usr/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/system.js:361:12)
at UI.error (/usr/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/ui/index.js:462:40)
at Function._run (/usr/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/command.js:195:16)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:95:5) {
errno: -13,
syscall: ‘mkdir’,
code: ‘EACCES’,
path: ‘/var/www/.ghost/logs’
}

I have tried various options but got no sucess, and now my blog is giving Bad gateway error.

I have installed ghost on aws using another user.

I followed below link to resolve but now my blog doesn’t even work

Please help

2

Just an update, I am unable to run any ghost command because of this issue now.

Below it the output when I do ls -al /var/www/ghost

drwxrwxrwx 6 plezna plezna 4096 Jun 24 12:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 24 10:40 …
-rw-rw-r-- 1 plezna plezna 111 May 26 2020 .ghost-cli
-rw-rw-r-- 1 plezna plezna 712 Jun 20 13:06 config.production.json
drwxrwxr-x 8 plezna plezna 4096 May 26 2020 content
lrwxrwxrwx 1 plezna plezna 30 May 26 2020 current → /var/www/ghost/versions/3.16.1
drwxrwxr-x 5 plezna plezna 4096 May 27 2020 node_modules
-rw-rw-r-- 1 plezna plezna 990 May 27 2020 package-lock.json
drwxrwxr-x 4 plezna plezna 4096 May 26 2020 system
drwxrwxr-x 3 plezna plezna 4096 May 26 2020 versions

3

If you followed my instructions then your content folder should be owned by the ghost user, which for me is just ‘ghost’ (some people seem to use ghost-mgr or something?). The outside of that I just have a regular user which is my name and that owns everything else. To make sure all permissions are correct, the steps I took were (assuming your ghost install location is /var/www/ghost and the ghost user is ghost):

# set the owners correctly (assuming you are currently 'plezna')
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/ghost
sudo chown -R ghost:ghost /var/www/ghost/content

# set the access permissions
sudo find /var/www/ghost/* -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
sudo find /var/www/ghost/* -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
4

I did exactly as you said but I am still not able to move past this error.
Now running ls -al /var/www/ghost gives me

total 36
drwxrwxrwx 6 plezna plezna 4096 Jun 24 15:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jun 24 16:23 …
-rw-rw-r-- 1 plezna plezna 111 May 26 2020 .ghost-cli
-rw-rw-r-- 1 plezna plezna 712 Jun 20 13:06 config.production.json
drwxrwxr-x 8 ghost ghost 4096 May 26 2020 content
lrwxrwxrwx 1 plezna plezna 30 May 26 2020 current → /var/www/ghost/versions/3.16.1
drwxrwxr-x 5 plezna plezna 4096 May 27 2020 node_modules
-rw-rw-r-- 1 plezna plezna 990 May 27 2020 package-lock.json
drwxrwxr-x 4 plezna plezna 4096 May 26 2020 system
drwxrwxr-x 3 plezna plezna 4096 May 26 2020 versions

But if I run ghost restart it again gives me

:heavy_multiplication_x: Checking for deprecations
An error occurred.
Message: ‘EACCES: permission denied, mkdir ‘/var/www/.ghost’’

Debug Information:
OS: Ubuntu, v18.04.4 LTS
Node Version: v14.17.1
Ghost Version: 3.16.1
Ghost-CLI Version: 1.17.3
Environment: production
Command: ‘ghost restart’
A promise was rejected but did not have a .catch() handler:
Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir ‘/var/www/.ghost/logs’
at Object.mkdirSync (fs.js:1009:3)
at Object.module.exports.makeDirSync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/node_modules/fs-extra/lib/mkdirs/make-dir.js:101:15)
at System.writeErrorLog (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/system.js:361:12)
at UI.error (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/ui/index.js:462:40)
at Function._run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/command.js:195:16)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:95:5)
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/bootstrap.js:27
throw reason;
^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir ‘/var/www/.ghost/logs’
at Object.mkdirSync (fs.js:1009:3)
at Object.module.exports.makeDirSync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/node_modules/fs-extra/lib/mkdirs/make-dir.js:101:15)
at System.writeErrorLog (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/system.js:361:12)
at UI.error (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/ui/index.js:462:40)
at Function._run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/command.js:195:16)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:95:5) {
errno: -13,
syscall: ‘mkdir’,
code: ‘EACCES’,
path: ‘/var/www/.ghost/logs’
}

5

Just an update to this. I rebooted my aws instance and my site is back online. However, can’t get past this error and unable to use any ghost commands