thejf/ghost repository overview

⁠Ghost blogging platform v0.3.2, running on Ubuntu 13.04

See https://github.com/TheJF/ghost-docker⁠ for details and the Dockerfile used to build this image.

This container uses environment variables to tailor Ghost to your needs. This is the config it uses⁠. The required environment variables are:

GHOST_HTTP_URL,

MAIL_FROMADDRESS,

MAIL_SERVICE,

MAIL_USERNAME,

MAIL_PASSWORD

It also requires a place to store the database outside the container, as storage inside Docker containers is not persistent. We can do this by creating a ghost-data directory somewhere on the server.

mkdir ghost-data

These must be configured as part of the run command. If you wanted to run a Ghost container as a daemon, you would type this in the directory below ghost-data: sudo docker run -e GHOST_HTTP_URL=http://your_own_url.com -e MAIL_FROMADDRESS=ghost@your_own_url.com -e MAIL_SERVICE=your_mail_service -e MAIL_USERNAME=your_username -e MAIL_PASSWORD=your_password -p 2368:2368 -v pwd/ghost-data:/content/data -d thejf/ghost npm start

If you wanted to run this in production mode as opposed to development mode, you need to add -e NODE_ENV=production to the run command.

Now point your browser to your http://your_own_url.com:2368 and magic.