How to install Ghost on Ubuntu 22.04

Today you will learn how to install Ghost on Ubuntu 22.04

Ghost is an open-source blogging platform which allows you to create a professional looking online blog. Ghost is a solid content management system (CMS) with a easy-to-use interface and comes with beautiful themes. It is based on NodeJS and have many features like Built-In-SEO Control, REST API, Great security and reliable.

Requirements :

  • 1-2GB of RAM (The more the better performance and the larger the blog you can host)
  • 1-2vCore CPU (The more the cores the better the performance)
  • 5-10GB of Disk Space
  • Ubuntu 22.04
  • Root Access or User with Sudo Access
  • FQDN (Optional but recommended) (Fully Qualified Domain Name)

Step 1 : Update your server

First step is to update your server which will look for newer packages and security updates for your distribution :

apt-get update -y
apt-get upgrade -y

Step 2 : Installing Requisites

Now, After updating our server we will move on to installing the main requisites required for Ghost, Run the following command to install it :

Create a user for Ghost and add it to sudoers :

adduser ghost
usermod -aG sudo ghost

apt-get install build-essential

Now, We will install NGINX and MariaDB :

apt-get install nginx mariadb-server

mysql_secure_installation

Copy the steps as shown in the picture or text :

Set root password? [Y/n] y
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] n
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y

Step 3 : Installing NodeJS :

Since Ghost is based on NodeJS and can be installed through npm, We will install it on our server, Run the following command to install :

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash
apt-get install -y nodejs npm

Step 4 : Installing Ghost on Ubuntu :

We have now everything setup to install Ghost , Run the following command to install Ghost :


npm install ghost-cli@latest -g

Create a directory for the website :

su ghost
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/ghost

Give permission to the folder :

sudo chown ghost:ghost /var/www/ghost
sudo chmod 775 /var/www/ghost

cd /var/www/ghost

Run the following command to install Ghost :

ghost install

Copy the steps or do the steps according to yourself :

Enter your blog URL: http://localhost:2368 or (Your domain name)
? Enter your MySQL hostname: localhost
? Enter your MySQL username: ghostuser
? Enter your MySQL password: [hidden] (Password of ghost comes here)
? Enter your Ghost database name: ghost
? Do you wish to set up Systemd? Yes
? Do you want to start Ghost? Yes

You can either access your website at the domain you specified or the http://localhost:2386/ghost/

ghost ubuntu
ghost on ubuntu

Conclusion :

You have installed GhostCMS on your Ubuntu 22.04 Machine. This tutorial starts as root and install Ghost as a sudo user.

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I'm a freelancer and a semi-professional VALORANT Player from Pakistan, Expert in Network & System Administration & WordPress Developing.

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