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~/.ghost/config not pupulated after ghost install fron non-root user

See original GitHub issue

There is also no info about modifying ~/.ghost/config file when doing verbose installation. It works however if I do the installation from root. How do I troubleshoot that?

[ghost@test strefadysk_prd]$ ghost ls
┌──────┬──────────┬────────┬─────┬──────┬─────────────────┐
│ Name │ Location │ Status │ Url │ Port │ Process Manager │
└──────┴──────────┴────────┴─────┴──────┴─────────────────┘
[ghost@test strefadysk_prd]$ ghost install --no-stack --pname strefadysk_prd --url 'http://test.pl'
 ✔ Checking for latest Ghost version
 ✔ Running system checks
 ✔ Setting up install directory
 ✔ Downloading and installing Ghost v1.0.0-beta.1
 ✔ Moving files
? Enter your blog URL: http://test.pl
? Enter your MySQL hostname: localhost
? Enter your MySQL username: ghost
? Enter your MySQL password: [hidden]
? Enter your Ghost database name: strefadysk_prd
✔ Finishing setup
? Do you want to start Ghost? No
[ghost@test strefadysk_prd]$ ghost ls
┌──────┬──────────┬────────┬─────┬──────┬─────────────────┐
│ Name │ Location │ Status │ Url │ Port │ Process Manager │
└──────┴──────────┴────────┴─────┴──────┴─────────────────┘
[ghost@test strefadysk_prd]$

[ghost@test strefadysk_prd]$ ls -la  ~/.ghost/
drwxrwxr-x. 2 ghost ghost 4096 Jun 12 02:53 .
drwx------. 6 ghost ghost 4096 Jun 21 15:09 ..
-rw-rw-r--. 1 ghost ghost   17 Jun 21 16:46 config

[ghost@test strefadysk_prd]$ cat ~/.ghost/config
{"instances":[]}

Ghost Version: beta.1 OS: Centos 7.3 Database: MariaDB

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

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acburdinecommented, Jun 23, 2017

So I did figure out what this was - if you have only one instance ghost uninstall sets the instances parameter in ~/.ghost/config to an empty array, rather than an empty object like it’s supposed to be. The next time you run ghost setup, it tries to set a value on an object and gets an empty array so it doesn’t work right.

Fix will be released in 1.0.0-alpha.19

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acburdinecommented, Jun 21, 2017

Oh…that makes more sense then! Must have introduced this bug when working on cleaning up the instance list after ghost uninstall 😞