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Installing Ghost on Void Linux

Ghost is a popular open-source blogging platform written in Node.js. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Ghost on Void Linux.

Step 1: Install Node.js and Yarn

The first step is to install Node.js and Yarn.

sudo xbps-install -S nodejs yarn

Step 2: Configure the Database

Ghost requires a database to store its data. You can use either SQLite, MySQL, or PostgreSQL. In this tutorial, we will be using SQLite.

sudo xbps-install -S sqlite

Once you have installed SQLite, create a new directory for the Ghost database and a new SQLite database file.

sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/ghost/content/data/
sudo touch /var/lib/ghost/content/data/ghost.db
sudo chown -R username:username /var/lib/ghost/

Step 3: Install Ghost

Next, we need to install Ghost. You can download the latest version of Ghost from the official website.

wget https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip 
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/ghost
sudo unzip -d /var/www/ghost ghost-latest.zip 
cd /var/www/ghost && sudo yarn install --production

Step 4: Configure Ghost

Now, we need to configure Ghost using the config file.

cd /var/www/ghost/
sudo cp config.production.json config.production.json.bak
sudo nano config.production.json

Modify the configuration file as follows:

{
  "url": "http://localhost:2368",
  "server": {
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "port": "2368"
  },
  "database": {
    "client": "sqlite3",
    "connection": {
      "filename": "/var/lib/ghost/content/data/ghost.db"
    }
  },
  "paths": {
    "contentPath": "/var/lib/ghost/content"
  },
  "logging": {
    "transports": [
      {
        "level": "info",
        "type": "stdout"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Save and close the file.

Step 5: Start Ghost

Finally, we can start Ghost using the following command:

cd /var/www/ghost/
sudo yarn start

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Ghost on Void Linux. You can now go to http://localhost:2368 in your web browser to access the newly installed Ghost platform.

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