Create blog using ghost on Ubuntu 12.04

Create blog using ghost on Ubuntu 12.04

You can down load and install ghost on your local or on your existing web-server hosted on cloud.

for you need to download the source code of ghost from the ghost site in my case i use curl
$ curl -L https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip -o ghost.zip
then unzip the code using following command 
$unzip -uo ghost.zip -d ghost 
After you successfully extracted Ghost open a terminal, if you haven't already, then:

• Change into the directory you extracted Ghost to with the following command:
  $ cd /path/to/ghost
  
• To install Ghost type:
  npm install --production
  note the two dashes
  
• When npm is finished installing, type the following to start Ghost in development mode:
  $ npm start
  
• Ghost will now be running on 127.0.0.1:2368
  You can adjust the IP-address and port in config.js
  

and we are done.

for production deployment we can use

You can use forever to run Ghost as a background task. forever will also take care of your Ghost installation and it will restart the node process if it crashes.

• To install forever type npm install forever -g
• To start Ghost using forever from the Ghost installation directory type NODE_ENV=production forever start index.js
• To stop Ghost type forever stop index.js
• To check if Ghost is currently running type forever list

 and most important.you need to use reverse proxy pass settings.

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName blog.nrathi.com
ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:2368/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:2368/
#RequestHeader set "X-Forwarded-Proto" "https"

# Fix IE problem (http error 408/409)
#SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1

ProxyPreserveHost on

</VirtualHost>

and we are done we can access it on the IP address on which we have hosted our blog  it.