Demo Version: https://abhijithvijayan.github.io/ghost-blog-demo/

• Requirements
  • 1) Install Major Dependencies
  • 2) Install Other Packages
• Setup
  • 1) Install Ghost
  • 2) Create a new Github repository
  • 3) Deploying to Github Pages
• How to update your blog?

Install Python 2.X, because buster package doesn't support Python 3.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python2.7

Install a version that is officially supported by Ghost, just like Node v6.9 or Node v8.9.

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

NodeJS package manager from https://nodejs.org/en/

sudo apt install npm

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linuxbrew/install/master/install.sh)"

Ghost is written in Node.js, so you will need the Node.js runtime.

brew install node
brew install wget
sudo apt-get install build-essential

Initialize npm

npm init

Enter the credentials when asked

• github username in the name field*
• repository name(eg: username.github.io)
• a description*

Leave the other less important fields empty.

Then run

npm install --production

curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn

With the tool Buster you can export the Ghost blogs into static pages.

First we install Buster with:

brew install python
sudo apt install python-pip
pip install --upgrade pip
sudo -H pip install buster

mkdir ghost && cd ghost
sudo npm install ghost-cli@latest -g

Empty the present working directory

sudo rm -r *

Install Ghost

ghost install local --no-start --enable --port 2368

ghost start

Open browser and navigate to

http://localhost:2368/

http://localhost:2368/ghost/

Go to the above link in your browser ans if it doesn't show anything, check the status of the blog with

ghost status

Create an account, read the intial blog post how to edit with Markdown etc.

See the GitHub Pages Basics Documentation for details.

You must use the username/username.github.io naming scheme. The repo name must be lower case even if your username has upper case letters.

Create a file named deploy.sh with contents from deploy.sh

Give execute permission

chmod u+x deploy.sh

Deploy with

./deploy.sh

For the initial push, please wait up to 10 minutes until GitHub deploys your subdomain.

All upcoming pushes are much faster and you can see your static ghost blog posts at https://username.github.io

To write new Blog posts or update the existing ones, just start Ghost, edit, then generate and deploy the static pages.

cd ghost
ghost start

Visit

http://localhost:2368/ghost/

Login and write new posts

After writing new posts, deploy with buster. Run the deploy.sh script/.

./deploy.sh

Enter the credentials when asked!

• Live Version: https://abhijithvijayan.github.io/ghost-blog-demo/
• Demo Repo: https://github.com/abhijithvijayan/ghost-blog-demo
• Custom Theme Repo: https://github.com/abhijithvijayan/Casper-XYZ