Ghost Blog Configuration (Apache, Ubuntu Upstart)

ghost

#!/bin/bash
NODE_ENV=production /home/myuser/local/bin/node /home/myuser/www/index.js

myghostblog.apache.conf

<VirtualHost 77.73.1.223:80>
  ServerName ghostblog.example.com
  
  ProxyRequests off
  
  <Proxy *>
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
  </Proxy>
  
  <Location />
    ProxyPass http://localhost:2368/
    ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:2368/
  </Location>
</VirtualHost>

user-blog.conf

#!upstart
description "MyUser Ghost Blog"
author "myuser"
start on startup
stop on shutdown

respawn
respawn limit 10 20

chdir /home/myuser/www/

script
  echo $$ > /home/myuser/run/upstart-ghost.pid
  exec sudo -u myuser '/home/myuser/bin/ghost' >> /home/myuser/ghost.log 2>&1
end script

pre-start script
  # Date format same as (new Date()).toISOString() for consistency
  echo "[`date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%T.%3NZ`] (sys) Starting" >> /home/myuser/ghost.log
end script

pre-stop script
  rm /home/myuser/run/upstart-ghost.pid
  echo "[`date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%T.%3NZ`] (sys) Stopping" >> /home/myuser/ghost.log
end script

The user-blog.conf file is the upstart config file. You would place this within /etc/init/ so that Upstart can use it on boot.

The ghost file is a binary that would live within /home/myuser/ that is called by the Upstart script

The user-blog.conf file is the Apache2 VirtualHost configuration. It makes use of Apache's proxy capabilities to pass requests to your domain through to the Ghost application running on port 2368.