Hi,
I was trying to install Ghost on my droplet but almost all of the tutorials I found required nginx to be installed. I don’t want to install nginx because I have Apache installed already. Do I really need nginx to run Ghost?
Thanks
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Ghost runs its own Node.js-based webserver, so you can use any program that supports reverse proxying in place of nginx.
It is possible to use Apache’s mod_proxy extension to proxy requests to the built-in Ghost webserver. Take a look at the following tutorial:
You don’t require nginx to be installed to run Ghost and it can easily be replaced with Apache or run standalone. nginx is preferred as it’s more focused on proxy/static file hosting than Apache and is for those reasons perfect for use with Ghost. To use it with Apache, simply setup a virtual host that reverse proxys to your Ghost blog in your Apache config so that any requests on that virtual host will go through Apache to your Ghost blog.