Switching site url in config to https casue crashing the site

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My URL: https://necro.dedfaf.tech

I was trying to fix the searching-problem like [this topic] (Search not working), and I found that my site url in ghost config is http://necro.dedfaf.tech, which casued searching functionality not working in my https version site. (When i aceess my site by http, searching works, plus the site’s icon showing up while https not showing the icon)

However when set the url to https://necro.dedfaf.tech by running ghost config --url https://necro.dedfaf.tech and restart ghost the whole site crashed showing 502 when visiting it.

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my Nginx config:

map $status $header_content_type_options {
    204 "";
    default "nosniff";
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2;

    server_name necro.dedfaf.tech;
    root /var/www/ghost/system/nginx-root; # Used for acme.sh SSL verification (https://acme.sh)

    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/necro.dedfaf.tech/fullchain.cer;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/necro.dedfaf.tech/necro.dedfaf.tech.key;
    include /etc/nginx/snippets/ssl-params.conf;

    location / {
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:2368;

        add_header X-Content-Type-Options $header_content_type_options;
    }

    location ~ /.well-known {
        allow all;
    }

    client_max_body_size 1g;
}

my config.production.json

{
  "url": "http://necro.dedfaf.tech","//switch the url to https crashes the site"
  "server": {
    "port": 2368,
    "host": "127.0.0.1"
  },
  "database": {
    "client": "mysql",
    "connection": {
      "host": "127.0.0.1",
      "user": "ghost",
      "password": "ghost",
      "database": "ghost"
    }
  },
  "mail": {
    "transport": "Direct"
  },
  "logging": {
    "transports": [
      "file",
      "stdout"
    ]
  },
  "process": "systemd",
  "paths": {
    "contentPath": "/var/www/ghost/content"
  }
}
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Im using Debian 6.1.124-1, Mariadb Ver 15.1

I have tried to replace proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme to proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https like this issue Bug: Setting url: to https in config.js causes a redirect loop · Issue #2796 · TryGhost/Ghost · GitHub but didn’t work for me.

And also why is there a rule that new user cannot use more than 3 links ( ﾟ∀。)7?, im sorry to post multiple posts to describe it

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No worries on multiple posts. It’s all good.

Can you please switch your site back to https and attempt to start Ghost, then check your ghost logs (in ghost-directory/content/logs) to see if there’s anything informative about why Ghost is ‘crashing’? (Or not starting? Or what?)

When you run nginx -t config-file-name, any errors? And the config file is in (or linked in) sites-enabled, right?

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thx for your early reply. Ive checked log before but I cant found any suspicious
https___necro_dedfaf_tech_production.error.log is empty
Here is a part of the log in https___necro_dedfaf_tech_production.log that appeared after I ran the ghost restart command:

{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67575,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","worker":{"resourceLimits":{"maxYoungGenerationSizeMb":20.25,"maxOldGenerationSizeMb":863,"codeRangeSizeMb":0,"stackSizeMb":4},"threadId":1},"msg":"Worker for job \"mentions-email-report\" online","time":"2025-02-10T05:45:10.798Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67575,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Worker for job mentions-email-report sent a message: done","time":"2025-02-10T05:45:10.806Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67575,"level":40,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Ghost is shutting down","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:52.131Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67575,"level":40,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Ghost has shut down","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:52.134Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67575,"level":40,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Your site is now offline","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:52.134Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67575,"level":40,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Ghost was running for 4 minutes","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:52.135Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Ghost is running in production...","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:53.914Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Your site is now available on https://necro.dedfaf.tech/","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:53.916Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Ctrl+C to shut down","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:53.916Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Ghost server started in 0.533s","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:53.946Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Bootstrap client was closed.","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:54.112Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Database is in a ready state.","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:54.206Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Ghost database ready in 0.801s","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:54.214Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":40,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Missing mail.from config, falling back to a generated email address. Please update your config file and set a valid from address","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:54.488Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Invalidating assets for regeneration","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:55.307Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Adding offloaded job to the inline job queue","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:55.822Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Scheduling job mentions-email-report at 18 13 * * * *. Next run on: Mon Feb 10 2025 14:13:18 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:55.837Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Adding offloaded job to the inline job queue","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:56.015Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Scheduling job clean-expired-comped at 54 0 0 * * *. Next run on: Tue Feb 11 2025 00:00:54 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:56.019Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Adding offloaded job to the inline job queue","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:56.029Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Scheduling job clean-tokens at 20 20 2 * * *. Next run on: Tue Feb 11 2025 02:20:20 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:56.041Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Ghost booted in 2.662s","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:56.074Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Adding offloaded job to the inline job queue","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:56.096Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Scheduling job update-check at 47 47 23 * * *. Next run on: Mon Feb 10 2025 23:47:47 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:56.100Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Running milestone emails job on Mon Feb 10 2025 13:47:56 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:56.111Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Bootstrap client was closed.","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:56.112Z","v":0}
{"name":"Log","hostname":"Necrophobia","pid":67715,"level":30,"version":"5.107.2","msg":"Ghost URL Service Ready in 2.791s","time":"2025-02-10T05:47:56.203Z","v":0}

nginx -t shows ok

nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

and necro.dedfaf.tech-ssl.conf (generated by ghost setup ssl) is in sites-enabled of course

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nginx access log:

- http -
MYIP - - [10/Feb/2025:14:48:14 +0800] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 200 5733 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
MYIP - - [10/Feb/2025:14:48:14 +0800] "GET /assets/built/screen.css?v=559b2f9833 HTTP/2.0" 200 9575 "https://necro.dedfaf.tech/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
MYIP - - [10/Feb/2025:14:48:14 +0800] "GET /assets/fonts/inter-roman.woff2?v=559b2f9833 HTTP/2.0" 200 37780 "https://necro.dedfaf.tech/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
MYIP - - [10/Feb/2025:14:48:14 +0800] "GET /assets/built/source.js?v=559b2f9833 HTTP/2.0" 200 18427 "https://necro.dedfaf.tech/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
MYIP - - [10/Feb/2025:14:48:14 +0800] "GET /public/cards.min.css?v=559b2f9833 HTTP/2.0" 200 6793 "https://necro.dedfaf.tech/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
MYIP - - [10/Feb/2025:14:48:14 +0800] "GET /public/cards.min.js?v=559b2f9833 HTTP/2.0" 200 1637 "https://necro.dedfaf.tech/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
- From Here I switched to https and give the site a visit -
MYIP - - [10/Feb/2025:14:48:54 +0800] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 502 559 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
MYIP - - [10/Feb/2025:14:48:54 +0800] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/2.0" 502 559 "https://necro.dedfaf.tech/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
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The problem havent been solved yet. I may try reset my blog at another VPS. Currently any help would be appriciated…