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All of a sudden I get a 502 Bad Gateway on my Ghost website. What's happening.

Posted on December 13, 2020

So I use Ghost with Digital ocean, and about a week ago I updated to the recent version of Ghost…my website (monalidor.com) was still working fine. All of sudden today I woke up to 502 error. What’s happening here? Also I use Cloudflare with my domain



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All I had to do was restart Ghost. I believe there is a command on the CLI to restart Ghost and that resolved the issue

Hi there,

I can see that your website is already up and running again. Would you mind sharing here with the community how you fixed the error?

Usually, for 502 error, I would recommend following the steps from this answer here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/502-bad-gateway-nginx-2

Regards, Bobby

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