Since a year or so, every attempt at using ghost-cli fails for me

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Hi,
I’m used to create websites with ghost and, weirdly, it has become more and more difficult for me to install ghost. Since a year or so, I’ve never been able to install ghost properly a single time. It’s always a process of trying like 20 times to follow the instructions, getting 2 or 3 different errors that alternates and then trying hard to manually debug it.

This time, what is it ? As usual, letsencrypt won’t setup but neither will ghost mysql user. Probably as a result of that, ghost fails to start and throws a “Unknown database error” everytime.

It’s been a few months since I didn’t touch my computer and sysadmin things so I’m a bit rusty and need some help in order to understand how I should do to -again- manually debug that.

Does anyone have a clue ? Thank you really much for the help

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What platform does your webserver use, e.g., Ubuntu, and do you have root access? Also, are you starting from scratch or do you have MySQL, Node already installed?

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Sorry for the late reply ! I’m using a vps from 1&1, ubuntu last verion, nothing else on the server just starting with a fresh install. I installed node only in the process of doing so with ghost ; just as with mysql.