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5# Ghost (this site)

Kenneth Haider

• 3 min read

first we create a new jail

iocage create -n ghost.yourdomain.com -b -r 13.1-RELEASE
iocage set ip4_addr="em0|192.168.5.40/24" ghost.yourdomain.com
iocage set defaultrouter=192.168.5.10 ghost.yourdomain.com

‌ fire up the jail and install  packages

#check ghost.org to see what latest version is supported of npm and mysql
pkg install vim-tiny mysql80-client node16 npm-node16 nginx

update npm

npm update
npm install -g npm@8.13.0
npm install ghost-cli -g

add ghost user

adduser
#follow prompt, make sure user is not part of wheel group
mkdir /www/yourdomain.com
chown ghost:ghost /www/yourdomain.com
chmod 775 /www/yourdomain.com
cd /www/yourdomain.com

install ghost

su - ghost
ghost install v5

answer the questions accordingly

System checks failed with message: 'Operating system is not Linux'
Some features of Ghost-CLI may not work without additional configuration.
For local installs we recommend using `ghost install local` instead.
? Continue anyway? Yes
? Enter your blog URL: https://yourdomain.com/
? Enter your MySQL hostname: 192.168.5.30
? Enter your MySQL username: ghost
? Enter your MySQL password: mysupersecretpassword
? Enter your Ghost database name: yourdomain_com
? Do you wish to set up Systemd? No
? Do you want to start Ghost? No

fix permissions

$ chmod 600 /www/yourdomain.com/config.production.json
$ ghost start

exit ghost user and configure nginx

my nginx config 

#vim /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
worker_processes  1;
error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;

events {
worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
include       mime.types;
default_type  application/octet-stream;
access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log;
sendfile        on;
keepalive_timeout  65;
gzip  on;

server {
listen 80;
server_name  localhost yourdomain.com www.yourdomain.com;
root /www/yourdomain.com/;

location / {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $http_x_forwarded_proto;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:2368;
}

location /ghost/ {

proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $http_x_forwarded_proto;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:2368/ghost/;
allow 192.168.0.5; # allow traffic routed through HAproxy.
deny  all;
}

location ~ /.well-known {
allow all;
}

client_max_body_size 50m;


error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root   /usr/local/www/nginx-dist;
}

}
}

start and enable nginx

service nginx enable
service nginx start

Since the sql server is located elsewhere, we need to open a

we want to connect to the mysql server to test that the connection is working

CREATE USER 'ghost'@'192.168.5.40' IDENTIFIED BY 'mysupersecretpassword';
CREATE DATABASE yourdomain_com;
GRANT ALL privileges ON `yourdomain_com`.* TO 'ghost'@'192.168.5.40';

then we test the connection from the ghost-jail:

mysql -u root -p -h 192.168.5.30 (ip to your mysql server)

then configure ghost by editing config.prodction.json

{
"url": "https://yourdomain.com/",
"server": {
"port": 2368,
"host": "192.168.5.40"
},
"database": {
"client": "mysql",
"connection": {
"host": "192.168.5.30",
"user": "ghost",
"password": "mysupersecretpassword",
"database": "mysite_com"
}
},
"mail": {
"transport": "Direct"
},
"logging": {
"transports": [
"file",
"stdout"
]
},
"process": "local",
"paths": {
"contentPath": "/www/mysite.com/content"
}
}

that should be it. Log in to https://yourdomain.com/ghost/ and begin setup

We also want to add a service so the site doesn't go down if a reboot should happen.

#vim /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ghost
...

#!/bin/sh

# PROVIDE: ghost
# REQUIRE: mysql
# KEYWORD: shutdown

. /etc/rc.subr

name="ghost"
rcvar="ghost_enable"
extra_commands="status"

load_rc_config ghost

start_cmd="ghost_start"
stop_cmd="ghost_stop"
restart_cmd="ghost_restart"
status_cmd="ghost_status"

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/home/ghost/.bin

ghost_start()
{
    su ghost -c "/usr/local/bin/ghost start -d /www/yourdomain.com"
}

ghost_stop()
{
    su ghost -c "/usr/local/bin/ghost stop -d /www/yourdomain.com"
}

ghost_restart()
{
    ghost_stop;
    ghost_start;
}

ghost_status()
{
    su ghost -c "/usr/local/bin/ghost status -d /www/yourdomain.com"
}

run_rc_command "$1"

Then fix the permissions

# chmod 755 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ghost
# service ghost enable
# service ghost status

Finally: After configuring ghost, I want to install prism (for prettier codeblocks)

Start by downloading the current theme (casper), to your working computer. heading to settings -> design -> change theme -> advanced -> download

Then head over to https://prismjs.com/download

  1. After you select the options you think will fit your needs, download the generated script and style files.
  2. Place the files in the proper assets folders in your downloaded  theme — content/themes/theme-name/assets/js/prism.js and content/themes/theme-name/assets/css/prism.css
  3. Now what’s left to do is just include those files in your layout.

To do so, open content/themes/theme-name/default.hbs file and add <link> tag in the head for the style

{{! Styles'n'Scripts}}...<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{asset "css/prism.css"}}

and a <script> tag before the closing <body> tag

...
<script type="text/javascript" src="{{asset "js/prism.js"}}></script>
</body>

Finally, rename your theme by editing package.json

{
	"name": "casper+prism",
	....

change the name of the zip-file casper_prism.zip and upload it to your webserver and activate it

thanks to medium.com , Blake Hartshorn and ghost.org for input to this post

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