I’ve been trying to add Ghost to my existing droplet where my website is running.
I’m using a droplet with ubuntu and Nginx. The website is running well. I’m running my website on port 3000 on a node server. Here is my sites-enabled default server block
server {
listen 80;
server_name mydomain.io;
return 301 http://www.mydomain.io$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.mydomain.io;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
}
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
}
Here is my sites-enabled server block for the website.
server {
listen 3000;
server_name mydomain.io;
location / {
root /existing-website;
index index.html index.htm;
auth_basic "Restricted";
auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/.htpasswd;
}
}
I have downloaded and unzipped Ghost in /var/www/ghost, and installed with npm install --production. I have configured the Ghost production config to have the URL set to https://mydomain.io/blog and the port set to 1000
production: {
url: 'https://www.mydomain.io/blog',
mail: {},
database: {
client: 'sqlite3',
connection: {
filename: path.join(__dirname, '/content/data/ghost.db')
},
debug: false
},
server: {
host: '127.0.0.1',
port: '1000'
}
}
My most recent and promising attempt to get the blog running is to add the following section to the default (main) Nginx server block. I believe this should pass requests to mydomain.io/blog on to port 1000.
location /blog {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header HOST $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
proxy_pass https://127.0.0.1:1000;
proxy_redirect off;
}
When i restart nginx and run production
service nginx restart
npm start --production
I get the folliwing output:
> ghost@0.7.6 start /var/www/ghost
> node index
Migrations: Up to date at version 004
Ghost is running in production...
Your blog is now available on https://www.mydomain.io/blog
Ctrl+C to shut down
However, I cannot access it in the browser.
What can be wrong in my config here? Note: I’m using cloudflare to ‘supercharge’ my website. Could it cause trouble?
Thank you
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Have spent ages on this issue - but when you are installing the blog as a subdomain on a website with the https protocol - the production json stays http WITHOUT https, i.e
production: {
url: 'http://www.mydomain.io/blog',
mail: {},
database: {
client: 'sqlite3',
connection: {
filename: path.join(__dirname, '/content/data/ghost.db')
},
debug: false
},
server: {
host: '127.0.0.1',
port: '1000'
}
}
I have CERTbot installed as per instructions in the this tutorial
The problem is fixed.
The code in the /blog location part was not working. When I simply duplicated the code block that was already there for my website it worked. The entire default config now looks like:
server {
listen 80;
server_name mydomain.io;
return 301 https://www.mydomain.io$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.mydomain.io;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
}
location /blog {
proxy_pass http://localhost:1000;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Update &http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
}
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
}
Did some research: Ghost experts say it is more appropriate to set the Ghost as ghost.mydomain.com for the existing website control by Ghost. Found great guidance: https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/ubuntu-nginx-ghost-blog/ Moreover (see the page) MariaDB is faster and lighter than mySQL, Google uses MariaDB.
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