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Ghost - A publishing platform for professional bloggers

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Ghost - A publishing platform for professional bloggers

Ghost is an open source publishing platform which is beautifully designed, easy to use, and free for everyone. Start a blog with Ghost today and learn to blog! Ghost is a lightning-fast Node.js application with an Ember.js admin client and Handlebars.js themes.

This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:

  • Ghost configurations:

    • Ghost installed from upstream source code to /opt/ghost

      Security note: Updates to Ghost may require supervision so they ARE NOT configured to install automatically. See below for updating Ghost.

    • Ghost process managed by pm2.

    • Includes Nginx (webserver); pre-configured to proxy Ghost.

  • SSL support out of the box.

  • Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email (e.g., password recovery).

  • Webmin module for configuring Postfix.

Supervised Manual Ghost Update

Note: Check the Ghost docs to ensure that upgrading your current version to the latest is supported. Always ensure that you have a tested backup before proceeding with software updates.

Assuming that updating to the latest Ghost version is supported. update from the command line:

DIR=/opt/ghost
cd $DIR
su -c "pm2 stop ghost" node
rm -rf core
curl -LOk https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip
unzip ghost-latest.zip -d ghost-temp
cd ghost-temp
cp -R core $DIR
cp index.js *.json *.md $DIR
# optional step - update default theme
cp -R content/themes/casper $DIR/content/themes
cd ..
rm -r ghost-temp
rm ghost-latest.zip
chown -R node:node $DIR
su -c "npm install --production" node
su -c "pm2 start ghost" node

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Credentials (passwords set at first boot)

  • Webmin, SSH, MySQL, Adminer: username root
  • Ghost: username admin