Daniaals Ghost Blog

This repo is the barebones Ghost repo that has the extra functionality of Azure Storage and Disqus comments on blog posts. Please give my post a read which instructs you on how to deploy Ghost to Azure on a Linux instance.

Useful Commands

• Build Docker File - docker build --platform linux/amd64 -t name/ghost-blog:{version} .
• Push docker image to repository such as Docker hub - docker push name/ghost-blog:{version}
• To run and test your docker image locally - `docker run -d --name ghost-blog -e NODE_ENV=production -e url=http://localhost:3001 -p 3001:2368 name/ghost-blog:{version}

Note: Before you push you will have to login with docker so use docker login to authenticate.

Use this locally to check the contents of the configuration file for example

docker exec -t -i my-ghost-without /bin/bash

To view the contents of a file, use cat config.production.json and this will be printed to the terminal.

Default Configuration

{
  "url": "http://localhost:2368",
  "server": {
    "port": 2368,
    "host": "::"
  },
  "database": {
    "client": "mysql",
    "connection": {
      "host": "",
      "port": 3306,
      "user": "",
      "password": "",
      "database": "",
      "ssl": {
        "rejectUnauthorized": true
      }
    }
  },
  "storage": {
    "active": "ghost-storage-azure",
    "ghost-storage-azure": {
      "connectionString": "",
      "container": "",
      "cacheControl": "2592000",
      "useDatedFolder": true,
      "cdnUrl": "",
      "useHttps": "true"
    }
  },
  "logging": {
    "transports": ["file", "stdout"]
  },
  "paths": {
    "contentPath": "/var/lib/ghost/content"
  },
  "mail": {
    "from" : "",
    "transport": "SMTP",
    "options": {
      "service": "Mailgun",
      "host": "",
      "port": 587,
      "secure": false,
      "requireTLS": true,
      "auth": {
        "user": "",
        "pass": ""
      }
    }
  }
}

Live Docker Logs

To see the docker logs in the Azure web app, go to app service logs and turn it on to "File System"

Disqus Comments

In the post.hbs file you will see

<section class="article-comments gh-canvas">
  <div id="disqus_thread"></div>
  <script>
    var disqus_config = function () {
        this.page.url = "{{url absolute="true"}}";
        this.page.identifier = "ghost-{{comment_id}}"
    };
    (function() {
    var d = document, s = d.createElement('script');
    s.src = ''; // Add your Disqus URL here
    s.setAttribute('data-timestamp', + new Date());
    (d.head || d.body).appendChild(s);
    })();
  </script>
</section>

I have added a comment on the line where you need to enter your Disqus URL.