Running Ghost with Node v5 (Ubuntu 14.04LTS)

Updated: 13 Apr 16

Ghost is a blogging platform that makes it so easy to set up a really beautiful blog.

As I was setting this up, I went through trouble as Node v5 is not supported by Ghost.

I am running node v5.6.0 and npm v3.7.5 which are currently the latest.

To set up Ghost with Node v5, do the following:

Use sudo when needed

Move to your web directory and create a folder for the blog:
```
cd /var/www
mkdir blog
cd blog
```

Get the latest Ghost and unzip it:

wget https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip
unzip ghost-latest.zip

Install for production mode without checking for node version:
```
GHOST_NODE_VERSION_CHECK=false npm install --production
```
Install sqlite3 v3.1.0 locally:

Note: In Ghost >=0.7.8, step 4 is not needed anymore.
```
npm install sqlite3@3.1.0
```
Run your Ghost in production mode without checking for node version:
```
GHOST_NODE_VERSION_CHECK=false npm start --production
```
It should run fine, as it just did with me. Copy the configuration and edit it as needed:
```
cp config.example.js config.js
vim config.js
```

To run it in a service deamon:

GHOST_NODE_VERSION_CHECK=false NODE_ENV=production forever start index.js

Setting up nginx server block for Ghost

After setting up Ghost over a port, one could use nginx to proxy pass the port to a subdomain.

Create a new server block in conf.d or sites-available (depending on what you use):
```
cd /etc/nginx/conf.d
touch blog.conf
```

Edit your server block as follows:

server {
   listen 80;
   server_name blog.z-proj.com;
   access_log /var/log/nginx/blog.log;


   location / {
      proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header HOST $http_host;
      proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
      proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3010;
      proxy_redirect off;
   }
}

Edit the subdomain and the port as needed.

Reload nginx configuration:
```
sudo nginx -s reload
```

Your blog should be now available at your subdomain.

Setting up service upstart

To set the service to start when your server boots up, do the following:

Create a new init.d script:

sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TryGhost/Ghost-Config/master/init.d/ghost \
-o /etc/init.d/ghost

Allow it to run as a script:
```
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/ghost
```

Edit the contents to match your directories:

sudo vim /etc/init.d/ghost


GHOST_ROOT=/var/www/blog
GHOST_GROUP=www-data
GHOST_USER=ubuntu
export GHOST_NODE_VERSION_CHECK=false NODE_ENV=production

Stop forever if it is still running, and start the blog using the init.d script:
```
sudo service ghost start
```

Set it to run at system start:

sudo update-rc.d ghost defaults
sudo update-rc.d ghost enable

Your blog setup is now complete.

I have also written a Ghost init.d script for Centos 7.0. You can find it here.