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Yatri Motorcycles' blogging site built using dockerized Ghost CMS with a custom Yatri theme built on top of Casper using AWS S3 for assets storage and MySQL as the database.

Primary LanguageCSSMIT LicenseMIT

Yatri Blog

Server Setup (docker)

  • In the root project folder, copy the example.env and save as .env.dev for development and .env.prod for production. Update the variables. In the project directory, you can run:

  • Run docker-compose up from the root folder to the application. To run the application in background, use docker-compose up -d. The logs can be seen through docker-compose logs.

  • For production mode. Run docker-compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3004 to view it in the browser.

Site setup

  • Navigate to http://localhost:3004/ghost to access the admin panel. After you've finished the setup process. You'll be able to see the ghost dashboard.

Custom theme

  • Navigate to http://localhost:3004/ghost. On the bottom left you'll see a ⚙️ icon. It'll navigate you to the settings page. Choose theme then under installed theme, select yatri-casper. It'll activate your custom theme.

  • Navigate to ghost/themes/yatri-casper from your root project directory and make changes to theme files. Reload your blog site and you'll be able to see your changes.

  • To create a .zip theme file.

    cd ghost/themes/yatri-casper
# install dependencies
yarn
# create .zip file
yarn zip

🏍 Happy Coding :)