Appliance category: 
node.js
Content management
Blogging

Ghost

A publishing platform for professional bloggers

Ghost

A publishing platform for professional bloggers

Ghost is an open source publishing platform which is beautifully designed, easy to use, and free for everyone. Start a blog with Ghost today and learn to blog! Ghost is a lightning-fast Node.js application with an Ember.js admin client and Handlebars.js themes.

This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:

  • Ghost configurations:
    • Ghost installed from upstream source code to /opt/ghost

      Security note: Updates to Ghost may require supervision so they ARE NOT configured to install automatically. See below for updating Ghost.

    • Includes Nginx (webserver); pre-configured to proxy Ghost.
  • SSL support out of the box.
  • Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email (e.g., password recovery).
  • Webmin module for configuring Postfix.

Supervised Manual Ghost Update

Note: Check the Ghost docs to ensure that upgrading your current version to the latest is supported. Always ensure that you have a tested backup before proceeding with software updates.

Update NodeJS (recommended but perhaps required; example updating to latest NodeJS v14.x - to check current version run 'node -v'):

n 14

Or, updating to latest NodeJS LTS (double check that Ghost supports it first):

n lts

Update Ghost CLI (to latest; recommended but likely not required):

npm install -g ghost-cli@latest

Then update ghost itself. Become ghost_user and update:

su - ghost_user
ghost update

Once finished, exit back to the root user:

exit

Note: ghost-cli may ask for your sudo password, by default the "ghost_user" sudo password is the same password you set for the Ghost UI admin at firstboot.

Ghost does not have a security only newsletter so we recommend that you subcribe to the Ghost Blog to keep up to date.

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Usage details & Logging in for Administration

No default passwords: For security reasons there are no default passwords. All passwords are set at system initialization time.

Ignore SSL browser warning: browsers don't like self-signed SSL certificates, but this is the only kind that can be generated automatically. If you have a domain configured, then via Confconsole Advanced menu, you can generate free Let's Encypt SSL/TLS certificates.

Web - point your browser at either:

  1. http://12.34.56.789/ - not encrypted so no browser warning
  2. https://12.34.56.789/ - encrypted with self-signed SSL certificate

Note: some appliances auto direct http to https.

Username for ghost:

Login as username [email set at firstboot]

Username for database administration:

  1. Adminer; login as MySQL username adminer:

    https://12.34.56.789:12322/ - Adminer database management web app

  2. MySQL command line tool; log in as root (no password required): 
    $ mysql --user root
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql>

Username for OS system administration:

Login as root except on AWS marketplace which uses username admin.

  1. Point your browser to:
  2. Login with SSH client: 
    ssh root@12.34.56.789

    Special case for AWS marketplace:

    ssh admin@12.34.56.789

* Replace 12.34.56.789 with a valid IP or hostname.