Ghost blogging

I was looking for a platform to take notes about my hobby projects and share them. After a short research Ghost seemed to be an adequate tool.

It is an open source blogging platform, took only about a few minutes to launch and configure.

Ghost has an official Docker image, I was using docker-compose.

docker-compose.yml

version: '2'

services:

    ghost:
        image: ghost
        container_name: ghost
        ports:
            - ""${GHOST_PORT}:2368""
        volumes:
            - ${GHOST_DIR}:/var/lib/ghost
        environment:
            - NODE_ENV=${GHOST_ENV}

.env

GHOST_PORT=###YOUR_PORT###
GHOST_DIR=###YOUR_DIR###
GHOST_ENV=development

After building the image, I suggest to edit the config.js at the chosen directory, because production environment isn't configured yet. I am not sure why, the maintainer didn't include the paths setting to the production block, but you can copy it from the development block, or from here:

config.js

...
      , paths: {
            contentPath: path.join(process.env.GHOST_CONTENT, '/')
        }
...

After editing config.js, change the GHOST_ENV variable to ""production"" in the .env file and restart the container.

Almost ready to go, set the credentials at yourdomain.com**/ghost**

:-)

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