How To Install Ghost Blog On Ubuntu

If you are using Linux on your desktop follow these steps:

• Log in to http://ghost.org, and then click the blue 'Download Ghost Source Code' button
• On the downloads page, press the button to download the latest zip file & then extract the file to the location you want to run Ghost from

If you are using Linux as a guest OS or through SSH and only have the terminal, then:

• Use the following command to download the latest release of Ghost:

$ curl -L https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip -o ghost.zip

• Unzip the archive and change into the directory using the following:

$ 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

• When npm is finished installing, type the following to start Ghost in development mode:

$ npm start

Apache Settings for server:

•  Go to apache directory

          $ cd /etc/apache2/sites-available

• Create the configuration file

         $ nano whatever

• Write proxy settings in that file

         <VirtualHost *:80>

          ServerName blog.maaxframe.com

          <Proxy "*">

          AddDefaultCharset off

          order deny,allow

          allow from all

          </Proxy>

          ProxyRequests off

          ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:2368/

          ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:2368/

          SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1

          ProxyPreserveHost on

          </VirtualHost>