This weekend I ran into a particular issue with Ghost where I wanted to have the public URL point to https://shaunchander.me/blog (so links in my newsletter can point to the correct domain) but also have the admin panel accessible on a different domain entirely.
The issue was, whenever I tried accessing the domain I used for admin__url, I would get a generic error. I tried deleting and re-installing Ghost (which led to a backup and restoration of my MySQL database, ugh) and nothing came from that... until I read a very obscure post on Ghost's forums that had the solution to the exact problem I was having.
So in Ghost, you can set the admin url to a different domain using the admin__url environment variable.
My setup looked something like this:
## Ghost .env
url=https://shaunchander.me/blog
admin__url=https://example.comHowever, when I tried to access https://example.com (redacted the real domain), I was greeted with this:
Cannot GET /It wasn't the default NGINX error page so... that must mean Ghost is running correctly, but it's not able to handle my request.
Turns out, when you use a subpath in your Ghost url (in my case it was /blog), ghost appends the admin panel to it like /blog/ghost.
That means that if you want to access your Ghost admin panel, you'll need to visit https://example.com/blog/ghost. Yep, easy at that. It took a whole, roundabout process for me to figure that out.
I hope that clears things up 😉
