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How To: Install Ghost CMS on your Ubuntu 18.04 Linux VPS

Modified on Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:52 AM

In this article, we're going to show you how to install Ghost CMS for a lightweight and sleek blogging experience.

Preparation

Prerequisites for Installation

These are the required installation requirements to follow along with this guide successfully:

Ubuntu 18.04
NGINX
A supported version of Node.js
MariaDB
At least 1GB memory

We'll begin with an update.

apt update && apt upgrade -y

Next, we'll create a user for Ghost to use. Our new user cannot be named ghost due to conflicts, so please pick something different.

adduser blogmanager

usermod -aG sudo blogmanager

Now we will switch to our new user.

su - blogmanager

Installation

Installing our packages

We're going to install the packages that we will use to install and run Ghost CMS. These include CURL, NGINX, MySQL, Node.js, NVM,

sudo apt install curl nginx mariadb-server npm

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh -o install_nvm.sh

bash install_nvm.sh

source ~/.profile

nvm install 12

sudo mariadb

use mysql;
update user set authentication_string=password(''), plugin='mysql_native_password' where user='root';
exit;

sudo mysql_secure_installation

sudo npm install ghost-cli@latest -g

# We are going to name directory 'blogaway' in this example; you may use whatever name you'd like
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/blogaway

# Replace blogmanager with the name of your user we created earlier
sudo chown blogmanager:blogmanager /var/www/blogaway

# Set the correct permissions
sudo chmod 775 /var/www/blogaway

# Then navigate into it
cd /var/www/blogaway

# Run the installer
ghost install

Follow the prompts and fill in the questions with your site's information.

Testing

Now we'll visit our site URL that was defined during the Ghost setup.

Success! You have installed Ghost CMS and can now begin editing your site.

For more information, check out the official Ghost documentation over at: https://ghost.org/docs/

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