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Sep. 24, 2014

Install Ghost with Nginx and MySQL

The steps I installed Ghost blog on Linode with Debian 7.5 Prepare apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install -y build-essential Installing Nginx apt-get install nginx Install Node.js Based on here Setup with Debian (as root): curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash - Then install with Debian (as root): apt-get install -y nodejs nodejs-legacy Install MySQL apt-get install mysql-client mysql-server Secure MySQL mysql_secure_installation Restart MySQL /etc/init.d/mysql restart or service mysql restart Using MySQL mysql -u root -p to setup database: CREATE DATABASE YOUR_DATABASE; CREATE USER 'YOUR_USERNAME' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOUR_PASSWORD'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON YOUR_DATABASE.* TO 'YOUR_USERNAME'; exit Install Ghost Based on here created /var/www/ghost as ghost folder mkdir -p /var/www/ cd /var/www/ curl -L https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip -o ghost.zip unzip -uo ghost.zip -d ghost cd /var/www/ghost Then setup ghost environment npm install --production npm install mysql npm install forever -g Setup Ghost Copy over the example config file and then edit it cp config.example.js config.js vim /var/www/ghost/config.js Change production default url to your domain and setup MySQL database url: 'http://YOUR_DOMAIN', database: { client: 'mysql', connection: { host: 'localhost', user: 'YOUR_USERNAME', password: 'YOUR_PASSWORD', database: 'YOUR_DATABASE', charset: 'utf8' } }, Run Ghost as background process Fix all permission chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/ghost Then run ghost as background process by forever (you can find other deply methods in here) NODE_ENV=production forever start index.js Setup Nginx vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/ghost server { listen 80; server_name example.com www.example.com; location / { proxy_redirect off; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true; proxy_pass http://127.