ghost is mostly working except for default URL it seems

@marmot7

The first thing I would recommend changing is this server block:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name linuxhowto.tech;
    location / {
         return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
    }
}

When it comes to HTTP -> HTTPS redirects, you don’t need to specify a location block. All you need to use is:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name linuxhowto.tech;

    return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

Beyond that, I just setup and ran a test installation of Ghost + NGINX using your Proxy Config and it’s working without any issues, so it may be the above that’s causing the issues.

So for you domain, you should have two server blocks that look like:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name linuxhowto.tech;

    return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name linuxhowto.tech;

    ssl on;
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/linuxhowto.tech/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/linuxhowto.tech/privkey.pem;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers On;
    ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_ciphers ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:ECDH+3DES:DH+3DES:RSA+AESGCM:RSA+AES:RSA+3DES:!aNULL:!MD5:!DSS;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:2368;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_buffering off;
    }
}