An adventure with Ghost I: Installing Ghost on a VPS with Nginx

A few days ago I published an entry about how to install Ghost easily with an installation script, today I write this to teach how to install it with Nginx and your domain name. Without further ado, let's get started with the tutorial!

Required packages

To install Ghost In VPS we have to connect to it and install the dependencies, for this we need to install the following:

# apt-get install build-essential automake make checkinstall dpatch patchutils autotools-dev debhelper quilt fakeroot xutils lintian cmake dh-make libtool autoconf git-core curl zip nginx

This will install the dependencies to compile NodeJS (required by ghost), will install Nginx and other tools.

Compiling NodeJS

To compile NodeJS we must download the sources:

wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz

Once this is done, you have to unzip them:

tar -xzf node-latest.tar.gz

We move to the directory where the code is located:

nodeversion=`ls | grep node`
cd $nodeversion

We compile and install:

./configure
make -s
make install

And that's it!

Installation

Before configuring, you have to install it, right? Although of course, do not panic, you will no longer compile 🙂

Create the www directory and move to it:

mkdir -p /var/www
cd /var/www/

Download Ghost:

curl -L -O https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip

Unzip:

unzip -d ghost ghost-latest.zip
rm ghost.zip

Enter the directory:

cd ghost/

Move everything to / var / www /:

mv /var/www/ghost/* /var/www/

Go back to / var / www /:

cd /var/www/

Install Ghost

/usr/local/bin/npm install --production

Good! Now to configure. 😀

Configuration

We edit the configuration file with the following command:

sed -e 's/127.0.0.1/0.0.0.0/' -e 's/my-ghost-blog.com/www.dominio.com/' -e 's/2368/8080/' config.js

Easy right? Just replace "domain.com" with your domain, for example:

sed -e 's/127.0.0.1/0.0.0.0/' -e 's/my-ghost-blog.com/www.theworldofthegeek.com/' -e 's/2368/8080/' config.js

We could do it with dwarf (the GNU editor, not to be confused with Nano's DesdeLinux : V), but it would be more complicated and we would have to replace a lot (yes, a lot, as you read it) code, but this way to explain is easier :).

But remember we need it to be in the background! For this we install forever:

/usr/local/bin/npm install -g forever

We introduce the following command (to start Ghost We must be in the installation directory (/ var / www /)):

NODE_ENV=production forever start index.js

Ta dah! In background!

To stop, restart or start Ghost:

forever stop index.js
forever restart index.js
NODE_ENV=production forever start index.js

Ready! 😀

Setting up Nginx

Time to configure Nginx!

We will edit the configuration file:

nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

We will delete everything and paste the following configuration: http://paste.desdelinux.net/5034

Once with the new settings, replace the word "domain" with your domain name on lines 36, 38, 39 and 43.

Now reboot Nginx

service nginx restart

Ready! 😀

Configure the domain

Enter your domain provider and edit the A (Host) record. Change the IP address it points to for your VPS, and voila!

End Notes

To access the administration, go to www.dominio.com/ghost/ remember to change domain for your domain. Ready! You can now access your domain, start publishing and install a theme :), but ...

The World Of The Geeks (I) give you this theme for you to install, modify and enjoy. 🙂

You just have to download it:

wget http://www.theworldofthegeek.com/files/TWOTGFlat.zip

Unzip it:

unzip TWOTGFlat.zip

And copy the theme to your Ghost

cp TWOTGFlat/ /var/www/content/themes

Now in the settings of your Ghost change the theme to the new one, and voila!

If you have a question or need help with Ghost, leave your questions in the comments or you can contact me on my website.

Cheers! nn /