Ghost Blog Setup with NginX

Setting up Ghost blog

To install the needed dependancies for the ghost blog run these commands

yum install npm nodejs
npm install forever -g

Then we will add a new user for ghost to run under

adduser ghost

then we must deny SSH access for this user do this by editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config and adding the line DenyUsers ghost restart the sshd service for changes to take affect. Now we can setup ghost blog
change to the ghost user by typing su ghost && cd this will switch user to ghost and then change directory to there home folder. Now download ghost with

wget https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip
unzip ghost-latest.zip -d example.com-2360

change example.com-2360 to your domain and port number you intend to use (incase you plan to host multiple ghost instances)

Then use

npm install --production

to install all the node modules needed for ghost
next thing to do is edit the config.js file

cp config.example.js config.js

in the production: {} section edit this to suite your requirements you can also add your mailgun details in this section too. This will enable you to invite editors to the ghost blog and also reset passwords etc

mail: {
  transport: 'SMTP',
    options: {
      service: 'Mailgun',
        auth: {
          user: '', // mailgun username
          pass: ''  // mailgun password
    }
  }
},

when you have editied all this to suite your requirements start the blog by using

NODE_ENV=production forever --uid=example.com start index.js

This will start up the blog with the options set in the production: {} section if you wanted to start the blog with the development options replace NODE_ENV=production with NODE_ENV=development also replace the --uid=example.com with anything you would like to call the service. When you make changes to a ghost blog like the theme or something you will need to restart it to see those changes do this by restarting the name given with the uid option for example

forever restart example.com

will restart the ghost blog.
Now we will setup a reverse proxy on NginX so you can view it at the correct domain with out using the port number

open up a new .conf file inside /etc/nginx/sites-available folder and paste/edit this

	server {
    	listen 0.0.0.0:80;
    	server_name example.com;
    	access_log /var/log/nginx/example.com.access.log;
    	error_log /var/log/nginx/example.com.access.log; 
    location / {
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header HOST $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:2368;
        proxy_redirect off;
    }

Restart NginX with service nginx restart and then proceede to setup your ghost blog by going to http://example.com/ghost this will allow you to set up the owner details