Ghost

Installs Ghost, a blogging platform. By default it'll install the latest Ghost version available from Ghost's homepage.

By default, it installs the latest Node version available on Nodesource's repository using the nodesource.node role.

By default, it installs and configures a Nginx proxy using the jdauphant.nginx role.

This role also takes care of Ghost's issue #2639 on hosts using libc 2.13 or older, making sure that npm's sqlite3 is compiled beforehand. This has been tested and verified to work on Debian Wheezy.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Required variables:

• ghost_install_dir: Directory where Ghost will be installed. It is also the home of the user that runs Ghost. Defaults to `/var/www/ghost'.
• ghost_user_name: Username for the user that runs Ghost. Defaults to ghost.
• ghost_user_group: Group for the user that runs Ghost. Defaults to ghost.
• ghost_config_mail: Ghost's mail configuration. It expects a YAML dictonary. Defaults to {}.
• ghosts_config_database: Ghost's database configuration. It expects a YAML dictionary. Defaults configure a sqlite3 database, which is Ghost's default.
• ghosts_config_server: Ghost's server configuration. It expects a YAML dictionary. Defaults to localhost on port 2368.
• ghost_nodejs_enabled: Enables or disables installing nodejs. Defaults to yes.
• ghost_nginx_enabled: Enables or disables configuring a nginx proxy. Defaults to yes.
• ghost_nginx_port: Defines the nginx listening port. Defaults to 80.
• ghost_nginx_sites: Nginx sites configuration passed to jdauphant.nginx role. Check its README for more information. The defaults configure a reverse proxy listening on port 80 and denying access to Ghost's admin page except for requests originated from localhost.

Internal variables, avoid changing:

• ghost_fetch_url: URL used for fetching Ghost. Defaults to https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip.
• ghost_fetch_dir: Directory to store the Ghost zip. Defaults to /tmp.
• ghost_nodejs_pin_priority: Pin for apt-preferences. Defaults to 500.
• ghost_nodejs_path: Nodejs binary path. Defaults to /usr/bin/node.

Dependencies

• SimpliField.node
• jdauphant.nginx

These roles can be installed by running ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml.

Local Testing

Tests can be ran on Debian Wheezy and Ubuntu Trusty boxes by executing "vagrant up". There are the following ENV variables:

• ANSIBLE_TAGS: A list of tags, comma-separated, that will be ran by Ansible. Defaults to all.
• ANSIBLE_VERBOSE: Ansible's verbosity level. Defaults to v.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - mtpereira.ghost

For multiple Ghost instances per host:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: mtpereira.ghost
      ghost_install_dir: /var/www/ghost_two
      ghost_config_server:
        host: "127.0.0.1"
        port: "2369"
      ghost_nginx_sites:
        ghost_two:
          - listen 8080
          - server_name {{ ghost_config_server.host }}
          - proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr
          - proxy_set_header Host $http_host
          - location / { proxy_pass {{ ghost_internal_url }}; }
          - location ~ ^/ghost/setup { allow {{ ghost_nginx_admin_allowed_cidr }}; deny all; }
    - role: mtpereira.ghost
      ghost_install_dir: /var/www/ghost_two
      ghost_config_server:
        host: "127.0.0.1"
        port: "2368"
      ghost_nginx_sites:
        ghost_one:
          - listen 80
          - server_name {{ ghost_config_server.host }}
          - proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr
          - proxy_set_header Host $http_host
          - location / { proxy_pass {{ ghost_internal_url }}; }
          - location ~ ^/ghost/setup { allow {{ ghost_nginx_admin_allowed_cidr }}; deny all; }

If you already have you own webserver setup for multiple instances, you can skip the ghosts_nginx_sites definition.

License

BSD

Author Information

Thanks to nodesource for the Nodejs packages repository

Thanks to SimpliField for the Ansible role.

Thanks to jdauphant for the Nginx role.

GitHub project page

Manuel Tiago Pereira