Ghost: Error: No default engine was specified and no extension was provided.

[seungha-kim]

Issue Summary

can't access admin home (/ghost) after fresh install 1.4.0
detail error message (it is printed in web browser):

Error: No default engine was specified and no extension was provided.
    at new View (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/view.js:62:11)
    at EventEmitter.render (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:570:12)
    at ServerResponse.render (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:971:7)
    at HTMLErrorRender (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/core/server/middleware/error-handler.js:86:9)
    at Layer.handle_error (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:71:5)
    at trim_prefix (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:315:13)
    at /home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:284:7
    at Function.process_params (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:335:12)
    at next (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:275:10)
    at prepareError (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/core/server/middleware/error-handler.js:58:5)
    at Layer.handle_error (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:71:5)
    at trim_prefix (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:315:13)
    at /home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:284:7
    at Function.process_params (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:335:12)
    at next (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:275:10)
    at Layer.handle_error (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:67:12)
    at trim_prefix (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:315:13)
    at /home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:284:7
    at Function.process_params (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:335:12)
    at next (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:275:10)
    at /home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:424:7
    at SendStream.onerror (/home/seungha/ghost-test/versions/1.4.0/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:1003:5)

and after I upgraded Ghost from 1.1.0 to 1.4.0, it showed 404 page.

Technical details:

• Ghost Version: 1.4.0
• Node Version: 6.11.1
• Browser/OS: Manjaro
• Database: SQLite3

[seungha-kim]

I installed Ghost via ghost install local command.

[NistorCristian]

The same thing happened to me ... On a fresh install using Ghost CLI

[TomasBankauskas]

Just updated Ghost from 1.2.0 to 1.4.0 and got the same error.

Technical details:

• Ghost Version: 1.4.0
• Node Version: 6.11.1

[philmillman]

+1 on ghost 1.4.0, node 6.9.4

[fueko]

The same problem - update from 1.3 to 1.4 via CLI

[kirrg001]

Thanks for the report.

I can confirm this. This should only affect the development installation via CLI, because the admin view is missing in the npm 1.4.0 version. We will publish a fix to npm as first thing in the morning!

[kirrg001]

You can manually sort this out by copying current/core/server/admin/views/default-prod.html to current/core/server/admin/views/default.html and restart Ghost via ghost restart.

[fueko]

Thanks, this works :)

[kirrg001]

1.5.0 was released.

[seungha-kim]

@kirrg001 It works well. Thank you!

[art1fa]

After upgrading from 1.25.6 to 2.6.0 I get exactly this error after trying to access the admin page. The current/core/server/admin/views/ is actually empty and copying a default.html from a previous version didn't help.

Edit: Damn, I downloaded the source code instead of the release. Resolved.