Newbie here. Installed Ghost using CLI on an AWS EC2 instance, trying to start it for the first time. But ghost start simply times out and gives the following “Could not communicate with Ghost” error. Not using Elastic IP or anything. MySQL is on a remote host. GhostCLI 1.25.3, Ghost 5.71.1 What e…

Eventually managed to resolve it, and I’m dumb lol :upside_down_face: There were many problems but eventually it boiled down to the MySQL remote host’s SSL configuration. For anyone in the future stumbling upon this, it’s the database SSL section of this page of the docs: Configuration - Adapt you…

[image] KaushikR02: Could not communicate with Ghost Have you got a firewall on that might be giving you trouble? Ghost does need to ‘talk to itself’ to boot up. If you can run ghost run -D, that’ll get you more debugging information, hopefully with something actionable.

No firewall in use, ufw is disabled. For some reason, ghost run fails, giving me: + sudo node current/index.js Sorry, user ghostbloguser is not allowed to execute '/home/ghostbloguser/.nvm/versions/node/v18.18.2/bin/node current/index.js' as ghost on ip-172-31-0-81.us-west-1.compute.internal.

[image] KaushikR02: Sorry, user ghostbloguser is not allowed to execute '/home/ghostbloguser/.nvm/versions/node/v18.18.2/bin/node current/index.js' as ghost This is older, but I think it might have your answer? [image] [RESOLVED] Not allowed to run/sudo commands as ghost user …

Not it, unfortunately. sudo -u ghost /usr/bin/whoami works normally, and even after I gave user ghostbloguser sudo permissions for user ghost, the error persists for ghost run, which is baffling me.

Yet another "Could not communicate with Ghost" error, fresh install, first time

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Yet another "Could not communicate with Ghost" error, fresh install, first time

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