Install_ghost.md

Prerequisites

Ubuntu 16.04 or Ubuntu 18.04

MySQL

NGINX

Systemd

Recommended Node version installed via NodeSource

At least 1GB memory (swap can be used)

A non-root user for running ghost commands

If you are running 1GB of memory, you need swap space.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap bs=1k count=1024k mkswap /var/swap swapon /var/swap echo '/var/swap swap swap defaults 0 0' >> /etc/fstab

If the last command fails with "Permission denied" (e.g. on a fresh Amazon EC2 instance), try this instead:

echo '/var/swap swap swap defaults 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

Server setup

Add a user to run ghost commands

adduser usermod -aG sudo su -

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install nginx

If you enabled ufw

sudo ufw allow 'Nginx Full' sudo apt-get install mysql-server

If you are running Ubuntu 18.04, you will need to run a couple of additional steps in order to make your MySQL setup compatible

with Ghost-CLI replace 'password' with a password of your choice

sudo mysql ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY ''

Install nodejs

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

If you have Node.js already installed, please ensure it was installed system wide. This means Node.js was installed e.g. in

/usr/bin/node or /usr/local/bin/node. You can double check where Node.js was installed with the command (which node).

Install Ghost

sudo npm i -g ghost-cli@latest

Create a folder for ghost

sudo mkdir -p /var/www/ghost

Your user must own this directory with correct permissions

sudo chown [user]:[user] /var/www/ghost sudo chmod 775 /var/www/ghost

Navigate to the new folder

cd /var/www/ghost ghost install

Done!