Anyone can link to a decent script for installing Ghost?

APFS

I have been using WordPress till now and want to switch to Ghost. I have spun up a stardust instance on scaleway and test ghost on it before I install it on Hetzner and move my blog.

I am not well aware of linux but can run basic commands. Installing Ghost seems to need something called docker according to some commands posted on some websites.

Is there any script that can do the installing part of docker, sql, node.js and ghost automated?
Looking for something that can work on a 1gb vps.
Thanks in advance.

Liso

A quick google search yield this → https://github.com/TomChantler/Ghost-Install

thesto

PikaPods also offers it. If you need Ghost only, this may be cheaper than a VPS? And less work.

https://www.pikapods.com/apps#blog

emgh

The default guide takes like 5 minutes.

crunchbits

I haven't seen a working script but the guide for Ubuntu 18/20 works pretty well. You don't have to use docker but that can simplify it a little depending on your use case.
There is a little ambiguity where the guide makes some assumptions but it's relatively quick. I had actually just moved our blog to Ghost and am a huge fan of it so far.

Google 'how to install docker on [operating system of choice]' and then their docker page is pretty straight forward, but there are also tons of how-to's from many other hosts.

m4nu

@Liso said:
A quick google search yield this → https://github.com/TomChantler/Ghost-Install

Careful. Newer Ghost versions depend on MySQL 8 and will have subtle bugs with MariaDB/MySQL 5.

Ubuntu 18.04 comes with MySQL 5.7. So you'll want Ubuntu 20.04 or run both in Docker.

endrit

I think DO and namecheap should work fine, both offer ghost as one click install. If you want to host more than ghost on your vps you can use : Cloudron, Younohost, Sandstorm, Easypanel etc.

varwww

I don't think Docker is a requirement. From https://ghost.org/docs/hosting/ It says you need

Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 or 22.04
MySQL 8.0
NGINX
Systemd
nodejs 14.x/ 16.x (recommended)
A server with at least 1GB memory
A non-root user for running ghost commands

lol_fire

i use docker for my ghost instance if you want here is the docker compose

version: "3.3"
services:
  ghost:
    image: ghost:latest
    container_name: ghostblog
    restart: always
    ports:
      - xxxx:2368"
    depends_on:
      - db
    environment:
      url: 
      database__client: mysql
      database__connection__host: db
      database__connection__user: ghost
      database__connection__password: 
      database__connection__database: ghostdb
      mail__transport: SMTP
      mail__options__host: 
      mail__options__port: 
      mail__options__secureConnection: 
      mail__options__auth__user: 
      mail__options__auth__pass: 

    volumes:
      - ./ghost/content:/var/lib/ghost/content
    networks:
      - tunnel

  db:
    image: mysql:8.0
    container_name: ghostblog-db
    restart: always
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 
      MYSQL_USER: ghost
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: 
      MYSQL_DATABASE: ghostdb
    volumes:
      - ./ghost/mysql:/var/lib/mysql
    networks:
      - tunnel

networks:
  tunnel:
    external: true