Setup steps for installing Ghost on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 server

setup.md

Variables:

<server_ip> - ip of the server the blog is being installed on - name for the server e.g. "myblog" - domain name e.g. "myblog.mycompany.com" <ghost_mysql_pw> - a password for a ghost user in mysql <ssl_email> - an email address for letsencrypt

Steps to get from Ubuntu 16.04 fresh install to Ghost

Largely based on the following:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-16-04 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-nginx-on-ubuntu-16-04 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-node-js-on-ubuntu-16-04 http://www.tecmint.com/install-mariadb-in-ubuntu-and-debian/

Networking

• hostnamectl set-hostname <hostname>
• hostname
• vim /etc/hosts
• Add: <server_ip> <domain> <hostname> after localhost

Create admin user (can login)

• adduser admin
• adduser admin sudo

Setup SSH key

• su admin
• cd ~
• mkdir .ssh
• [LOCAL] scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub admin@<server_ip>:/home/admin/.ssh/uploaded_key.pub
• cat uploaded_key.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
• rm -r uploaded_key.pub

Update base software

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get upgrade
• sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Create ghost user (runs ghost)

• sudo adduser ghost
• sudo adduser ghost sudo @NOTE: should this really be a sudo user?!

Lockdown SSH

• sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
• change:
  • PermitRootLogin no
  • PasswordAuthentication no
• add:

  • Limit logins to IPv4 only

  • AddressFamily inet
• sudo systemctl restart ssh
• sudo ufw allow OpenSSH
• sudo ufw enable

Install Node, npm, ghost-cli, nginx

• sudo apt-get update
• curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x -o nodesource_setup.sh
• sudo bash nodesource_setup.sh
• sudo apt-get install nodejs
• sudo apt-get install build-essential
• node -v = 6.10.2
• npm -v = 3.10.10
• sudo apt-get install nginx
• sudo ufw allow 'Nginx Full' @NOTE: I want SSL, would like to make this SSL only, can't do this before letsencrypt setup though?

mariadb

Install:

• sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
• sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 0xF1656F24C74CD1D8
• sudo add-apt-repository 'deb [arch=amd64,i386,ppc64el] http://www.ftp.saix.net/DB/mariadb/repo/10.1/ubuntu xenial main'
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install mariadb-server

Configure:

• sudo mysql_secure_installation
• mysql -u root -p
• CREATE USER ghost@localhost identified by '<ghost_mysql_pw>';
• CREATE DATABASE ghost_prod;
• GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ghost_prod.* to 'ghost'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<ghost_mysql_pw>'; @NOTE what are the expected steps here - I just did it all and plugged it into Ghost-CLI.

Install Ghost

@NOTE: which user should I be here? Should it be different for installing vs running?!

• su ghost
• sudo npm i -g ghost-cli
• cd /var/www/
• sudo mkdir ghost
• sudo chown ghost:ghost ghost
• cd ghost
• ghost install

Then fill out the prompts:

• Url:
• MySQL host: localhost
• MySQL user: ghost
• MySQL pass: <ghost_mysql_pw>
• MySQL db: ghost_prod
• SSL: yes
• SSL email: <ssl_email>

@Note: SSL setup then fails with Error code 1 if doesn't already point at <server_ip> and seems to also fail without sudo?

Is there no way to do it manually by entering details in a config file and just uploading the files to your server?