How to Install Ghost on OpenBSD

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.

Prerequisites

Before installing Ghost on OpenBSD, make sure that you have the following:

• An OpenBSD server with a minimum of 1GB RAM
• Node.js installed on your OpenBSD server
• NPM installed on your OpenBSD server

Step 1: Install Ghost

1. Log in to your OpenBSD server as root or with superuser privileges.

2. Download the latest version of Ghost by running the following command:

wget https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip

3. Extract the downloaded .zip file by running the following command:

unzip ghost-latest.zip -d ghost

4. Change the directory to the newly-created ghost directory:

cd ghost

Step 2: Configure Ghost

1. Copy the sample configuration file by running the command:

cp config.example.js config.js

2. Open the config.js file using your preferred text editor:

vi config.js

3. Locate the 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'
    }
},

4. Save and close the config.js file.

Step 3: Install Ghost Dependencies

1. Install pm2 package using following command

npm install -g pm2

Step 4: Configure Ghost to run as a Service

1. Run the following command to start Ghost:

NODE_ENV=production pm2 start index.js --name "ghost-blog"

2. Check the status to make sure it's running:

pm2 list

Step 5: Set up Nginx as a Reverse Proxy

1. Open /etc/nginx/nginx.conf in your preferred text editor:

vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

2. Add the following lines to configure the reverse proxy:

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;
   }
}

3. Save and close the file.

4. Restart Nginx:

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Conclusion

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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