I’ve been working on my first Ghost theme for the last few weeks. Just tried to install it on our server and I’ve gone through all the steps (creating user, setting permissions). Installed the CLI okay, but when I try install Ghost itself I’m getting a permission error: OS & Ghost version: OS: Ubu…

Try re-setting permission for /home/server/.config P.S. Sorry for not using code block I can’t add it due to mobile keyboard

Looks like your permissions are not correct, maybe it’s that, try: sudo chmod 775 /var/www/ghost If you want to look at it, I wrote a guide on how to install it step by step: https://elkepon.com/how-to-install-ghost-blogging-platform/ or maybe it’s something in your json, which I have no idea.

The doc is excellent, I installed it from there. But you are not following straight, you are using yarn and the docs use npm. Where are you following the guide from then? I remember I had a lot of trouble when installing it from other sources that was not the official doc. If you go with the NPM, m…

I was using npm, I assumed the yarn error was something ghost was using internally? I’m pretty sure I’ve not got yarn installed on the server! I’ll check and try remove it.

I’m not sure will it help but did you try to install yarn manually before installing ghost.

I did not. I’ll try installing yarn manually. When you said to try re-setting permissions for /home/server/.config (btw ‘server’ was the user I created) should I reset it to the default 755, or 775? Thanks!

I checked, it seems like it is 700.

I recommend creating a new VPS and start experimenting, it’s a very straightforward installation

Problem is I’m trying to install it on an existing VPS running node! I think something to do with the existing set up caused the problem (although I had the right version of node, and no NVM etc) I checked the permissions on the directory: drwx------ 6 server server 4096 Aug 14 18:41 . drwxr-xr-…

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joe August 14, 2018, 9:44am 3

I definitely set permission 775, and made the user own the directory. I was following the docs guide, but it has similar steps.

https://docs.ghost.org/docs/install

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