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Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected string

See original GitHub issue

Issue Summary

After a clean install of Ghost, I am unable to access /ghost to setup a user account for my blog. I get a continuous loading spinner, nothing else happens. Upon inspection of console I can see two errors:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected string in vendor.min-md5 and ghost.min-md5

Some users are complaining about this in Slack chat, and it’s also similar to issue #8782

Steps to Reproduce

Install ghost
Navigate to /ghost

Technical details:

Server: Ubuntu
Ghost Version: 1.3.0 (cli 1.0.3)
Node Version: 6.11.2
Browser/OS: macOS Sierra, Chrome and Safari
Database: MySQL

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Comments:8 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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ErisDScommented, Aug 3, 2017

Cool, so I’ve also updated the documentation to reflect this, and as its such a common problem added callouts to both the upgrade and install guide. Hopefully this will help!

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mforcercommented, Aug 2, 2017

@ErisDS The blog is under CloudFlare, I disabled the cache by enabling development mode and it started working again. A quick Google took me to this page: https://docs.ghost.org/v1.0.0/docs/troubleshooting - which suggests adding a page rule to disable caching of admin assets (slightly different issue, but makes sense!).

I’ve added a rule /ghost* to bypass the cache.

Everything seemed to work from here on out… Assuming this wasn’t an issue with Ghost I decided to close the issue. However, I just tried to access it again and it I got the same issue with the page rule in place.

I tested again by enabling development mode in CF, again, this fixed the issue.

I’m back to square one so I’ll reopen this.