How to start Ghost as a service on Ubuntu 16.04

Official Ghost documentation Deploying Ghost describes how to start Ghost as a service using script for /etc/init.d. This approach work well only for Ubuntu prior version 16.04. In this tutorial I’ll describe how to start Ghost as a service using new systemd service manager. Requirements Ghost should be already installed. *How to install Ghost described here: How to install Ghost on Ubuntu 16.04. Ghost is installed in /var/www/ghost Create systemd script Open terminal as root (or sudo user). Continue reading

How to install Ghost on Ubuntu 16.04

Ghost is an opensource lightweight publishing platform for blogging. It uses NodeJS, Ember.js and Handlebars under the hood. In this tutorial I will describe how to install Ghost on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS instance. If VPS instance has less than 1 GB of RAM installation could be a little bit tricky. Without further ado let’s get started. Update Ubuntu Before installing any new software it’s better to have our system up to date . Continue reading