I’ve read a few posts on this subject, but I just updated my ghost using the DO-specific guide and it came up with a 502 error. I followed a couple of questions on how and why this is happening, including debugging it by turning nginx off and then running npm start --production inside my ghost folder. This worked fine, I then restarted nginx and ran the command again and my blog came back up. Problem is that naturally, this will stop working when I close down that terminal window/want to do anything else in the same terminal window, but when I close it and use “service ghost start” or “service ghost restart” I get a 502 bad gateway again. Help? Should note my original install was a DO one-click.
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What port is Ghost running on? Nginx listens for it on 2368.
The Upstart init script used on the “one-click” droplet essentially just runs npm start --production Here’s a copy of if:
description "Ghost: Just a blogging platform"
start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=eth0)
stop on runlevel [!12345]
# If the process quits unexpectedly trigger a respawn
respawn
setuid ghost
setgid ghost
env NODE_ENV=production
chdir /var/www/ghost
exec /usr/local/bin/npm start --production
pre-stop exec /usr/local/bin/npm stop --production
Are there any errors in /var/log/upstart/ghost.log ?
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