# Stack: Error: EACCES: permission denied ghost config url
**URL:** https://forum.ghost.org/t/stack-error-eacces-permission-denied-ghost-config-url/9208
**Category:** Developer help
**Created:** [September 24, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/stack-error-eacces-permission-denied-ghost-config-url/9208 "2019-09-24T23:17:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@blegit](https://forum.ghost.org/u/blegit)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/stack-error-eacces-permission-denied-ghost-config-url/9208/1 "2019-09-24T23:17:30Z")
Hello I just set up ghost with digital ocean but at the time I did not have a domain name. No I am trying to setup SSL with lets encrypt and I am trying to edit the config file to setup my domain and I get this error:
**Debug Information:**
OS: Ubuntu, v18.04
Node Version: v8.10.0
Ghost-CLI Version: 1.11.0
Ghost version: 2.31.1 (at /var/www/ghost)
Environment: production
Command: ‘ghost config url [http://bryanhope.com/](http://bryanhope.com/)’
An error occurred.
Message: ‘EACCES: permission denied, open ‘/var/www/ghost/config.production.json’’
**Here is the content of the log file**
Stack: Error: EACCES: permission denied, open ‘/var/www/ghost/config.production.json’
at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:646:18)
at Object.fs.writeFileSync (fs.js:1299:33)
at Object.writeFileSync (/usr/local/lib/node\_modules/ghost-cli/node\_modules/jsonfile/index.js:117:13)
at Config.save (/usr/local/lib/node\_modules/ghost-cli/lib/utils/config.js:91:12)
at ConfigCommand.run (/usr/local/lib/node\_modules/ghost-cli/lib/commands/config.js:38:50)
at Function.\_run (/usr/local/lib/node\_modules/ghost-cli/lib/command.js:178:35)
at Object.handler (/usr/local/lib/node\_modules/ghost-cli/lib/command.js:60:22)
at Object.runCommand (/usr/local/lib/node\_modules/ghost-cli/node\_modules/yargs/lib/command.js:242:26)
at Object.parseArgs [as \_parseArgs] (/usr/local/lib/node\_modules/ghost-cli/node\_modules/yargs/yargs.js:1078:30)
at Object.parse (/usr/local/lib/node\_modules/ghost-cli/node\_modules/yargs/yargs.js:566:25)
at Object.run (/usr/local/lib/node\_modules/ghost-cli/lib/bootstrap.js:182:14)
at Object. (/usr/local/lib/node\_modules/ghost-cli/bin/ghost:16:11)
at Module.\_compile (module.js:652:30)
at Object.Module.\_extensions…js (module.js:663:10)
at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
Code: EACCES
Path: /var/www/ghost/config.production.json
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### Author:  [@vikaspotluri123](https://forum.ghost.org/u/vikaspotluri123)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2019, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/stack-error-eacces-permission-denied-ghost-config-url/9208/2 "2019-09-24T23:41:32Z")
What user are you running as? It should be the same user that installed Ghost
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### Author:  [@blegit](https://forum.ghost.org/u/blegit)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/stack-error-eacces-permission-denied-ghost-config-url/9208/3 "2019-09-24T23:45:57Z")
well I created a super user from the command line which is probably different from whatever I did when I set up the DO droplet how would I find out which user was created when the droplet was created?
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### Author:  [@vikaspotluri123](https://forum.ghost.org/u/vikaspotluri123)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2019, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/stack-error-eacces-permission-denied-ghost-config-url/9208/4 "2019-09-24T23:49:07Z")
You can probably guess by looking at the file owner:
`stat /var/www/ghost/config.production.json -c "%U"`
I’m guessing you did it with `ghost-mgr`
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### Author:  [@blegit](https://forum.ghost.org/u/blegit)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 12:01am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/stack-error-eacces-permission-denied-ghost-config-url/9208/5 "2019-09-25T00:01:15Z")
That worked thanks but now when I run ghost setup ssl I get the error:
Nginx config file does not exist, skipping SSL setup
Setting up SSL skipped
do I need to generate this config file?
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### Author:  [@vikaspotluri123](https://forum.ghost.org/u/vikaspotluri123)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 12:01am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/stack-error-eacces-permission-denied-ghost-config-url/9208/6 "2019-09-25T00:01:42Z")
Try running `ghost setup nginx ssl`
(this will setup nginx + add ssl)
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### Author:  [@blegit](https://forum.ghost.org/u/blegit)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/stack-error-eacces-permission-denied-ghost-config-url/9208/7 "2019-09-25T00:04:57Z")
> [@vikaspotluri123](#):
>
> nginx ssl
That worked, when I originally ran ghost config url I ran this:
ghost config url [http://bryanhope.com/](http://bryanhope.com/)
do I need to rerun as http **s** ://bryanhope.com
also do I need to restart server for changes to take effect?
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### Author:  [@vikaspotluri123](https://forum.ghost.org/u/vikaspotluri123)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/stack-error-eacces-permission-denied-ghost-config-url/9208/8 "2019-09-25T00:09:04Z")
Yep, to change the url just run `ghost config set url {url}` and `ghost restart`:
[https://ghost.org/faq/change-configured-site-url/#change-the-configuration](https://ghost.org/faq/change-configured-site-url/#change-the-configuration)
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### Author:  [@blegit](https://forum.ghost.org/u/blegit)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 12:12am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/stack-error-eacces-permission-denied-ghost-config-url/9208/9 "2019-09-25T00:12:42Z")
> [@blegit](#):
>
> ttp **s** ://bryanhope.com
excellent thank you!