Unable to update ghost. Please help

[gokg4]

I have installed ghost on Digital Ocean a few weeks back & I am having no problems with the installation.

When trying to update I get this error message:

An error occurred.
Message: 'EACCES: permission denied, open ‘/var/www/ghost/.ghost-cli’'

Now I am unable to update ghost. Please help.

ghost doctor command

Checking system Node.js version
Checking logged in user
Ensuring user is not logged in as ghost user
Checking if logged in user is directory owner
Checking current folder permissions
Checking operating system compatibility
Checking for a MySQL installation
Running sudo command: systemctl is-active ghost_139-59-31-191
Validating config [skipped]
Checking folder permissions
Checking file permissions
Checking content folder ownership
Checking memory availability

[kszmigiel]

maybe try sudo ghost doctor?

[pascalandy]

Seems like a permission error. In the doc they refer to:

find ./ -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find ./ ! -path "./versions/*" -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

[ewliang]

I also had a issue updating Ghost a few weeks back. I also had something that had to do with permissions for user, and it didn’t work even when I switched to my deployment user nor running permission commands so I ended up backing up my blog’s content folder and slowly updating the version using the CLI (I had Docker so it made things a bit safer for my situation).

Here’s one guess
Maybe try stopping your ghost instance (don’t delete it).
Then try to update it again using the CLI.
Once it’s finished updating, start the ghost instance once more, and see if that works.

Sometimes that works for me for other website project commands.