Crash when running `$ ghost restart` from a subdirectory

Summary

If I run $ ghost start or $ ghost restart in a subdirectory of my Ghost folder it will throw a similar error as found in #442.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a ghost project
2. Make a new theme in the ghost project
3. cd to this theme nested somewhere in the ghost project
4. run $ ghost start

Any other info e.g. Why do you consider this to be a bug? What did you expect to happen instead?

I believe Ghost should recognize that the Ghost directory is somewhere further up and follow it.

Log file

Debug Information:
    OS: Mac OS X, v10.15.5
    Node Version: v12.16.3
    Ghost Version: 3.25.0
    Ghost-CLI Version: 1.14.1
    Environment: development
    Command: 'ghost restart'
Message: 
/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/lib/client.js:236
      throw new Error(`${message}\n${e.message}`);
      ^

Error: Knex: run
$ npm install sqlite3 --save
Cannot find module '/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v72-darwin-x64/node_sqlite3.node'
Require stack:
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/sqlite3-binding.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/sqlite3.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/lib/dialects/sqlite3/index.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/lib/knex.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/lib/index.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/knex.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/core/server/data/db/connection.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/core/server/index.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/core/index.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/index.js
    at Client_SQLite3.initializeDriver (/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/lib/client.js:236:13)
    at Client_SQLite3.Client (/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/lib/client.js:70:10)
    at new Client_SQLite3 (/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/lib/dialects/sqlite3/index.js:18:10)
    at Knex (/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/lib/knex.js:53:28)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/core/server/data/db/connection.js:34:20)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1133:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1153:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:977:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:877:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1019:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:77:18)
    at isDatabaseInitialisationRequired (/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/core/server/index.js:163:16)
    at makeGhost (/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/core/index.js:13:12)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/index.js:27:1)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1133:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1153:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:977:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:877:14)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:74:12)
    at internal/main/run_main_module.js:18:47

Stack: Error: 
/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/lib/client.js:236
      throw new Error(`${message}\n${e.message}`);
      ^

Error: Knex: run
$ npm install sqlite3 --save
Cannot find module '/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v72-darwin-x64/node_sqlite3.node'
Require stack:
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/sqlite3-binding.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/sqlite3.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/lib/dialects/sqlite3/index.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/lib/knex.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/lib/index.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/knex.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/core/server/data/db/connection.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/core/server/index.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/core/index.js
- /USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/index.js
    at Client_SQLite3.initializeDriver (/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/lib/client.js:236:13)
    at Client_SQLite3.Client (/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/lib/client.js:70:10)
    at new Client_SQLite3 (/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/lib/dialects/sqlite3/index.js:18:10)
    at Knex (/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/node_modules/knex/lib/knex.js:53:28)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/core/server/data/db/connection.js:34:20)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1133:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1153:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:977:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:877:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1019:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:77:18)
    at isDatabaseInitialisationRequired (/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/core/server/index.js:163:16)
    at makeGhost (/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/core/index.js:13:12)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/USER/ghost/versions/3.25.0/index.js:27:1)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1133:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1153:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:977:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:877:14)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:74:12)
    at internal/main/run_main_module.js:18:47

    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/Users/jachedaya/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.3/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/utils/local-process.js:65:35)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:310:20)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:275:12)

Technical details

Seen in log.

Debug Information:
    OS: Mac OS X, v10.15.5
    Node Version: v12.16.3
    Ghost Version: 3.25.0
    Ghost-CLI Version: 1.14.1
    Environment: development
    Command: 'ghost restart'

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[acburdine]

Perhaps if Ghost cannot find the production config but can find the development config it should launch with $ ghost start local by default?

It should do that automatically already, but there might be some sort of issue with that auto-detection not working when ghost restart is run in a subdirectory 🤔 I’ll do some testing myself and see what I can find.

[jackHedaya]

Not sure what the status of this bug is but haven’t worked with Ghost in about a year so I’m going to be closing it.