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…

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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