Ghost is a popular CMS (Content Management System) platform used for blogs, publications, and other online content. In this tutorial, we will be discussing the installation of Ghost on OpenBSD.
Before installing Ghost on OpenBSD, make sure that you have the following:
Log in to your OpenBSD server as root or with superuser privileges.
Download the latest version of Ghost by running the following command:
wget https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip
unzip ghost-latest.zip -d ghost
cd ghost
cp config.example.js config.js
vi config.js
production
block and replace url: 'http://my-ghost-blog.com',
with your domain name or IP address. For example:production: {
url: 'http://mydomain.com',
mail: {},
database: {
client: 'sqlite3',
connection: {
filename: path.join(__dirname, '/content/data/ghost.db')
},
debug: false
},
server: {
// Host to be passed to Node's `net.Server#listen()`
host: '127.0.0.1',
// Port to be passed to Node's `net.Server#listen()`, for iisnode set this to `process.env.PORT`
port: '2368'
}
},
npm install -g pm2
NODE_ENV=production pm2 start index.js --name "ghost-blog"
pm2 list
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
in your preferred text editor:vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
server {
listen 80;
server_name your-domain.com;
access_log /var/log/nginx/ghost-access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/ghost-error.log;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:2368/;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_set_header X-Nginx-Proxy true;
proxy_redirect off;
}
}
Save and close the file.
Restart Nginx:
sudo systemctl restart nginx
You're now ready to start using Ghost on OpenBSD. To log in and begin using Ghost, open a browser and navigate to http://your-domain.com/ghost
and follow the on-screen instructions to create a new admin account.
Happy Ghosting!
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