"Working directory is not a recognisable Ghost installation."

[DanHakimi]

Well, ghost-CLI isn't listed among the prerequisites, but okay, I've installed ghost-CLI. And I installed an instance of ghost. And I tried moving all of the ghost-on-github-pages files to that directory with that Ghost installation already in it.

./install never asked me for any info, including that url it's supposed to ask me for. No matter what I do, it says "Working directory is not a recognisable Ghost installation." Why is this happening?

[pmohun]

+1 to this. Running into the same issue on a fresh install. MacOS Mojave.

@DanHakimi did you ever manage to resolve this?

[DanHakimi]

I'm using Buster instead of Ghost on Github Pages. My understanding is that GoGHP is based on Buster, and that neitehr has been updated in a long time. But Buster works without too much trouble -- my blog is up at dresscode.danhakimi.com

[trovend]

Same Issue for me as well. Ubuntu 20.04.
ghost version results this-
Ghost-CLI version: 1.15.3
ghost doctor
"Working directory is not a recognisable Ghost installation."

[dberrocal-git]

https://ghost.org/docs/faq/node-versions/

update node and it is fixed

[khaoniaomamuang]

Use NodeJS version 18 (Hydrogen). This solves it for me.

[jansvanda]

dresscode.danhakimi.com

@DanHakimi that is awesome! Is that blog hosted on Github with some Ghost theme?

[jansvanda]

still having same issue

Working directory is not a recognisable Ghost installation.
Run `ghost start` again within a folder where Ghost was installed with Ghost-CLI.

node v18.20.6
npm 10.8.2