Install Ghost on your POWER web hosting plan

Last updated 4th February 2021

Objective

You've subscribed to a Web POWER web hosting plan to deploy Node.js applications, and you want to deploy a Ghost blogging platform on it.

This guide will explain how to do it.

Find out how to install Ghost on your POWER web hosting plan.

Requirements

• A Node.js POWER web hosting plan
• access to the OVHcloud Control Panel

If you have just started to use your Web POWER web hosting plan, we suggest to have a look at our Getting started with a POWER web hosting plan guide before going further.

Instructions

Let's suppose you have the default configuration for Node.js hosting:

• Runtime: nodejs 14
• Entrypoint: index.js
• DocumentRoot: www

Connect via SSH to your POWER web hosting. Let's begin by configuring the domain name in a DOMAIN variable:

echo "Enter your domain (my-domain.ovh for example):"
read DOMAIN

Then install Ghost using npm at your home folder (not www):

cd $HOME
npm install ghost-cli@latest
export PATH=$HOME/node_modules/.bin:$PATH
rm -rf www
# Install Ghost
ghost install local --development --dir www --no-setup --no-start --no-enable
# Setup configuration
cd www
cat << EOF > config.${OVH_ENVIRONMENT}.json
{
  "url": "https://${DOMAIN}",
  "paths": {
    "contentPath": "content"
  },
  "database": {
    "client": "sqlite3",
    "connection": {
      "filename": "content/data/ghost-development.db"
    },
    "useNullAsDefault": true,
    "debug": false
  }
}

EOF
# Symlink index.js entrypoint
VERSION=$(ghost --version | sed -n 's/Ghost version: \([0-9.]*\).*/\1/p')
ln -fs versions/${VERSION}/index.js index.js

Restart your instance and your Ghost will be online.

Terminal output:

 $ echo "Enter your domain (my-domain.ovh for example):"
Enter your domain (my-domain.ovh for example):

~/www $ read DOMAIN
power.mydomain.ovh

~/www $ cd $HOME
~ $ npm install ghost-cli@latest
> yarn@1.22.10 preinstall /home/powerlp/node_modules/yarn
> :; (node ./preinstall.js > /dev/null 2>&1 || true)
[...]
+ ghost-cli@1.15.3
added 420 packages from 208 contributors and audited 420 packages in 20.791s
[...]
`npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details

~ $ export PATH=$HOME/node_modules/.bin:$PATH

~ $ rm -rf www

~ $ ghost install local --development --dir www --no-setup --no-start --no-enable
✔ Checking system Node.js version
✔ Checking current folder permissions
✔ Checking memory availability
✔ Checking free space
✔ Checking for latest Ghost version
✔ Setting up install directory
✔ Downloading and installing Ghost v3.41.3
✔ Finishing install process

~ $ cd www

~/www $ cat << EOF > config.${OVH_ENVIRONMENT}.json
> {
>   "url": "https://${DOMAIN}",
>   "paths": {
>     "contentPath": "content"
>   },
>   "database": {
>     "client": "sqlite3",
>     "connection": {
>       "filename": "content/data/ghost-development.db"
>     },
>     "useNullAsDefault": true,
>     "debug": false
>   }
> }
>
> EOF

~/www $ VERSION=$(ghost --version | sed -n 's/Ghost version: \([0-9.]*\).*/\1/p')

~/www $ ln -fs versions/${VERSION}/index.js index.js

~/www $ mkdir -p tmp

~/www $ touch tmp/restart.txt

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