Install Ghost Manually on a subdomain.

Posted on January 6, 2015

I’m having a hard time installing ghost on my droplet. The guides I found online seems to be missing something.

My droplet run ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I want to run ghost on a subdomain (blog.example.com) . I used the guide to here to add subdomains on nginx and got it working. I followed this guide http://www.howtoinstallghost.com/how-to-install-ghost-on-ubuntu-server-12-04/ until the part “configure ghost” . I changed the config.example.js file adding on the url “blog.example.com” but I left the host untouched.

Can anyone find me a guide that helps me install ghost on a subdomain using nginx that guide us through the whole process until it is working on port 80?

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Andrew SB

January 8, 2015

Setting up Ghost to run on a subdomain behind an Nginx reverse proxy shouldn’t be much different than setting it up normally. The key is to set the server_name directive in your Nginx configuration file.

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

    server_name blog.example.com

    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    index index.html index.htm;

    client_max_body_size 10G;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:2368;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_buffering off;
    } 
}