For transparency, I originally posted as a reply in this this thread , but I’m starting a new thread because the old one was marked as resolved before I commented. What’s your URL? https://blog.jonsdocs.org.uk What version of Ghost are you using? 2.25.1 What configuration? Self hosted on Debian…

Many thanks @jeff - the problem was a path inside the systemd unit for the service following the Node move. ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /usr/bin/ghost run Path /usr/bin/node no longer existed (confirmed via ls /usr/bin/node). In case others have this problem, find node by using whereis node: manager…

Was yours also an upgrade, like mine, or was yours a clean install @cunidev ?

@cunidev I’m considering that approach, how easy is that to do? Is there a particular bit of documentation? I’ve not done much work with Ghost, and a backup / restore isn’t something I’ve had to do yet.

For me it was pretty straightforward to be honest, I downloaded the JSON backup from Labs and copied /content from the root, backed up nginx config (and the whole Ghost dir just in case) purged Node.js from my system, then re-installed it all from scratch and restored the articles from the json. Too…

First check that you can start ghost manually in the root folder of your blog - if you can then you know its a systemctl issue. FWIW - a quick google says that systemd service return 203/EXEC failure when ‘no such file or directory’ Perhaps your ghost_localhost links are broken etc. Look at the se…

I see from the other thread that you know its a systemctl issue… Look in /etc/systemd/system for your ghost_localhost.service - there should be a link to a .service file in your-blog-root/system/files/ghost_localhost.service Check the content of that .service file - look at the ExecStart entry - c…

Problems starting Ghost 2.25.1 on Debian 9.9

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cunidev June 24, 2019, 6:25pm 4

Deleted and restored the whole blog, was quicker.

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