Ghost-CLI failing on: Checking folder permissions

This issue is a bug report.

Summary

While following the Install & Setup (production) tutorial, the installation fails at: Checking folder permissions

Steps to Reproduce (for a bug report)

Follow the instructions for the Install & Setup (production) tutorial.

I follow the steps in the Installing on Linux tutorial and fail at ghost install, ghost setup, and ghost doctor at the exact same point: when Checking folder permissions. I receive a very uninformative (maybe give details about which user needs what access to where) message that states:

One or more errors occurred.

1) Checking folder permissions

Then it proceeds to list out each and every file/folder inside of the following folders:

• content
• versions
• system

Here’s my ls -al output just to verify everything has the right permissions (at least based on the tutorial):

snarlynarwhal@halfhuman:/var/www/dwerve.com/html/ghost$ ls -al
total 28
drwxrwsr-x 5 snarlynarwhal snarlynarwhal 4096 May 17 22:20 .
drwxrwsr-x 3 www           www           4096 May 17 22:17 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 snarlynarwhal snarlynarwhal  517 May 17 22:20 config.production.json
drwxrwsr-x 8 ghost         ghost         4096 May 17 22:18 content
lrwxrwxrwx 1 snarlynarwhal snarlynarwhal   46 May 17 22:18 current -> /var/www/dwerve.com/html/ghost/versions/1.22.8
-rw-rw-r-- 1 snarlynarwhal snarlynarwhal   88 May 17 22:19 .ghost-cli
drwxrwsr-x 3 snarlynarwhal snarlynarwhal 4096 May 17 22:20 system
drwxrwsr-x 3 snarlynarwhal snarlynarwhal 4096 May 17 22:18 versions
snarlynarwhal@halfhuman:/var/www/dwerve.com/html/ghost$

Log file (for a bug report)

✔ Checking system Node.js version
✔ Checking logged in user
✔ Ensuring user is not logged in as ghost user
✔ Checking if logged in user is directory owner
✔ Checking current folder permissions
✔ Checking operating system compatibility
✔ Checking for a MySQL installation
Running sudo command: systemctl is-active ghost_blog-dwerve-com
✔ Validating config
✖ Checking folder permissions
✔ Checking file permissions
✔ Checking content folder ownership
✔ Checking memory availability
One or more errors occurred.

1) Checking folder permissions

Message: Your installation folder contains some directories or files with incorrect permissions:
- ./
- ./content
- ./content/images
- ./content/data
...
- ./versions/1.22.8/content/settings
- ./system
- ./system/files
Run sudo find ./ -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \; and try again.

Debug Information:
    OS: Ubuntu, v16.04
    Node Version: v6.14.2
    Ghost-CLI Version: 1.7.3
    Environment: production
    Command: 'ghost update'

Try running ghost doctor to check your system for known issues.

Please refer to https://docs.ghost.org/v1/docs/troubleshooting#section-cli-errors for troubleshooting.

Technical details (for a bug report)

The exact recommended stack.

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[aileen]

Hey @snarlynarwhal 👋

I receive a very uninformative (maybe give details about which user needs what access to where) message that states

I’m not sure I understand, the output tells you to run a command:

Run sudo find ./ -type d -exec chmod 775 {} ; and try again.

When you created the installation folder, after setting the ownership to your user, did you also run the command to change the permissions?

sudo chmod 775 /var/www/dwerve.com/html/ghost

I am closing this as I don’t believe this is a bug in the CLI. Please come over to our forum if you need help. If it turns out to be a bug indeed, we can always reopen this issue.

[snarlynarwhal]

Okay cool 👍 I can go ahead and create a pr later today