persistent-ghost

Persistent Ghost

Tiny wrapper aroud the Ghost blog enabling deployment to Nodejitsu. The goal of this wrapper is to persist content. Both the sqlite database and content directory are persisted to MongoDB GridFS.

How to use

The most easy thing to do is jitsu install ghost which will do steps 1 and 2 for you. It default to the database name: 'ghost-blog'. For more fine-grained control you can follow the three steps below.

1. Clone this module via github or download a release directly from the interface.

   git clone git@github.com:nodejitsu/persistent-ghost.git

2. Create a MongoDB database via webops interface or jitsu CLI jitsu databases create mongo blog, where blog is the database name. After add the connection string to config.js. Optionally, you can configure an e-mail service. See the Ghost e-mail documentation for more details.

   exports.mongo = 'mongodb://nodejitsu:7f81223821312fd3192545fd9@paulo.mongohq.com:10051/nodejitsudb12238192';
    
   // recommended for password recovery, but optional 
   exports.mail = {
     transport: 'SMTP',
     options: {
       auth: {
        user: 'youremail@gmail.com',
        pass: 'yourpassword'
       }
     }
   }

3. Run jitsu deploy, acknowledge the provided subdomain or provide a custom subdomain to package.json.

For more details post setup, see the Ghost usage documentation.

Features

• Sync all files of the content directory to MongoDB GridFS.
• Backup for each file the latest two versions are stored.
• Recovery option by setting RECOVER=true as environment variable.
• Uses the latest available ghost on npm.

Currently the wrapper has a custom ghost as dependency. It's the lastest available ghost release with one tiny adjustment. Any adjustments we make and which are useful in general will be discussed with the awesome Ghost team.

Themes

Ghost can be provided with themes in two ways, both via config/index.js

• provide a git url to a theme for cloning. This is the advised method, casper: 'git://github.com/TryGhost/Casper.git'
• provide the name of a submodule, if your theme is private you should add it to bundledDependencies. Alternatively you could also use our private npm service. private: 'mytheme'

Upgrading

Follow the instructions below to upgrade.

Installed with jitsu install

In development, redoing installation steps works for now.

Installed with git

git pull origin master
jitsu deploy

Only required if you forked, simply add the orginal repo as upstream remote.

git remote add upstream git@github.com:nodejitsu/persistent-ghost.git
git pull upstream master
jitsu deploy

Disclaimer

The current solution is not perfect, it's a quick fix. Direct storage to mongoDB and/or content storage to a dedicated storage service would be prefered. If you would like to help out, check pkgcloud to get started. Although we expect the module to work properly, this package is provided "AS IS", see the License for more details.

License

MIT