I have 2 Ghost blogs on a Digital Ocean server running:
I used the instructions provided by Digital Ocean to set up the blogs, and they have worked fine and survived upgrades before.
On Saturday, I upgraded blog #1 from Ghost v0.6.0 to 0.7.0 and experienced no problems. After upgrading I ran service ghost-{blog1} restart
and it came online with pomp and triumph.
I immediately attempted to upgrade blog #2 following the same steps, but when I opened it in my browser after restarting the service, I got the “502 Bad Gateway” error.
I found that npm failed to install SQLite3 correctly, and fixed that. Now, I can start the blog successfully by running npm start --production
. The terminal shows that Ghost is running and intercepting requests, and I can use the site and blogging app in my browser.
But when I run service ghost-{blog2} start
, it continues to fail without presenting a terminal error. I get the following message:
ghost-{blog2} start/running, process 1693
But I still see the “502 Bad Gateway” error in my browser.
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I changed my startup script to run npm start --production > ghost-{blog2}.log
instead of npm start --production
, and I can see that Ghost starts up, and then quits immediately without error:
> ghost@0.7.0 start /var/www/{blog2}/ghost
> node index
That’s all that is in the log, even after hitting the page a few times. Nginx logs the requests, but Ghost doesn’t.
By contrast, when I start the blog by running npm start --production > ghost-{blog2}.log
from the terminal, the log continues thus:
> ghost@0.7.0 start /var/www/allder.org/ghost
> node index
Migrations: Up to date at version 004
Ghost is running in production...
Your blog is now available on http://allder.org
Ctrl+C to shut down
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Can anyone suggest steps I can take to troubleshoot this?
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I finally solved this problem!
The answer was to downgrade Node.js to version 0.10.40. When I wrote the above, I was running node vv0.12.7.
Ghost’s install documentation says it supports v0.12.x, but when looking at it again today, I noticed that it recommends v0.10.40.
It’s not clear to me at all why this solves the problem, but I’ll take it.