Are you dealing with a Cannot upload image error in your Ghost packaged by Bitnami? Keep reading to learn how to fix it in a few seconds

What error is? 🚨

When you try to upload any image, the server responds with:

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "message":"Internal server error, cannot upload image.",
      "context":"EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/opt/bitnami/ghost/content/images/2021/10'",
      "type":"InternalServerError",
      "details":null,
      "property":null,
      "help":null,
      "code":"EACCES",
      "id":"660baf30-1de9-11ec-906a-8dcde4a8621e"
    }
  ]
}

What is your content path? 🗺

Before apply the fix, you need to know where is the content folder. Usually, it is "/opt/bitnami/ghost/content" but you should verify it

In order to verify it, take a look to your config.production.json file:

cat /opt/bitnami/ghost/config.production.json

At the bottom of the file, you will find it

...
"paths": {
  "contentPath": "/opt/bitnami/ghost/content"
}
...

Copy the contentPath property value: "/opt/bitnami/ghost/content"

💡 If you can not find the config file, search it with the command:

find -L / -name "config.production.json"

How to fix the Permission Denied in Ghost ✅

Allow to read, write and execute in the images folder

sudo chmod 777 /opt/bitnami/ghost/content/images

Add ghost user as owner of the folder

sudo chown -R ghost:ghost /opt/bitnami/ghost/content/images

Restart to apply changes

sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart

💡 Remember to change the path in the previous commands if your content path is different

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