Ghost node.js Blogs ?

[eva2000]

Anyone else tried out Ghost open sourced node.js blogging platform https://ghost.org/ ? 

Just started playing with it and like it alot http://ghost.centminmod.com

 

[Erawan]

Yes, I'm using it since it went public

This is one of my blog using Ghost 0.3.3 http://www.erawan.me

 

[peterw]

So I need a webserver that handles the port 80 and forwards the requests to one/some node.js servers.

How do you handle the node.js processes? Linux service script is good for reboots but how do you keep the node.js alive?

 

[eva2000]

Yes, I'm using it since it went public

This is one of my blog using Ghost 0.3.3 http://www.erawan.me

Yup on 0.3.3 as well 

So I need a webserver that handles the port 80 and forwards the requests to one/some node.js servers.

How do you handle the node.js processes? Linux service script is good for reboots but how do you keep the node.js alive?

Yeah Nginx in front should do it, here's how i have it setup on Centmin Mod Nginx stack http://ghost.centminmod.com/ghost-node-js-install-on-centmin-mod-nginx-stack/

Using pm2 for startup/restart management http://ghost.centminmod.com/ghost-blog-node-js-init-startup-script/

 

[peterw]

startup/restart management...

And what about keep alive and security? Don't want to beef but is node.js and ghost really save? Do they check content security, xframes, xss, csfr, dos, etc?

 

[Erawan]

If you don't want to install webserver, it's fine. Node.js will run it automatically, you just need to set the Config.js to use the port 80 instead of 2368.

To make it start or stop easily, you can use supervisord in Debian.

My tutorial is here : http://www.erawan.me/moving-to-ghost/

 

[eva2000]

And what about keep alive and security? Don't want to beef but is node.js and ghost really save? Do they check content security, xframes, xss, csfr, dos, etc?

Nginx in front should take care of some of it i think. Early days only been using Ghost for 6 days

forever or pm2 automatically can restart node instance when it dies - my custom startup script http://ghost.centminmod.com/ghost-blog-node-js-init-startup-script/ just makes use of pm2

 

[peterw]

And there is a wordpress plugin for an easy export to ghost too. Or is there a better way to move from wordpress to ghost?

 

[eva2000]

yeah only way to export wordpress posts to ghost at the moment

 

[Erawan]

To export Wordpress to Ghost : Export the Wordporess posts to XML, and the open the Ghost installation at :

http://domain.com/ghost/debug

 

[fixidixi]

I love it! I was looking for a nice blog platform for a long time and octopress looked promising but it was too complicated to maintain..

 

[eva2000]

Well i created a Ghost Community info page so you can track all Ghost related info from one place http://ghost.centminmod.com/ghostinfo/ - handy considering official Ghost forums currently doesn't have any search features or latest post features

Ghost theming scene also is growing as well, my Ghost ThemeForest stats tracker page http://ghost.centminmod.com/themeforest/

 

[mojeda]

I've also made this a couple weeks ago if anyone is interested: https://github.com/mojeda/GhostStrap