/ghost

Ghost on Azure App Service

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Ghost on Azure App Service

This is my fork of Ghost 1.0 with changes to run on Azure App Service. Read here for a full introduction.

Branches

This repo is setup with a few branches for easier maintenance. The ghost branch is where I commit the Ghost releases as they come out unchanged. The azure branch (the default branch) is where I make only the changes necessary to get it running on Azure App Service. I rebase this branch off of ghost as new releases come out. I then create a separate branch for each site I deploy. This way I can make theme customizations and tweaks to individual sites and rebase those changes off of the azure branch.

Changes on the Azure Branch

  • Add a db.js file in the root to make it easy to initialize/migrate a SQLite database (since I can't run the CLI tool on Azure).
  • Force config.js to get the port it should run on from PORT env variable instead of SERVER_PORT. This is to make iisnode happy.
  • Add web.config & iisnode.yml - standard stuff to host node on IIS.
  • Add support for HSTS headers. Technically, this isn't required to get Ghost running on Azure, but you should probably do it anyway.

To see these changes in detail, see the branch comparison.