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V 16.0
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This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:
- Ghost configurations:
- Ghost installed from upstream source code to /opt/ghost
Security note: Updates to Ghost may require supervision so they ARE NOT configured to install automatically. See below for updating Ghost.
- Ghost process managed by pm2.
- Includes Nginx (webserver); pre-configured to proxy Ghost.
- Ghost installed from upstream source code to /opt/ghost
- SSL support out of the box.
- Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email (e.g., password recovery).
- Webmin module for configuring Postfix.
Supervised Manual Ghost Update
Note: Check the Ghost docs to ensure that upgrading your current version to the latest is supported. Always ensure that you have a tested backup before proceeding with software updates.
Assuming that updating to the latest Ghost version is supported. update from the command line:
DIR=/opt/ghost cd $DIR su -c "pm2 stop ghost" node rm -rf core curl -LOk https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip unzip ghost-latest.zip -d ghost-temp cd ghost-temp cp -R core $DIR cp index.js *.json *.md $DIR # optional step - update default theme cp -R content/themes/casper $DIR/content/themes cd .. rm -r ghost-temp rm ghost-latest.zip chown -R node:node $DIR su -c "npm install --production" node su -c "pm2 start ghost" node
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Usage details & Logging in for Administration
No default passwords: For security reasons there are no default passwords. All passwords are set at system initialization time.
Ignore SSL browser warning: browsers don't like self-signed SSL certificates, but this is the only kind that can be generated automatically without paying a commercial Certificate Authority.
Web - point your browser at either:
- http://12.34.56.789/ - not encrypted so no browser warning
- https://12.34.56.789/ - encrypted with self-signed SSL certificate
Username for ghost:
Login as username admin
Username for database administration:
Login as MySQL username root at
- https://12.34.56.789:12322/ - Adminer database management web app
- MySQL command line tool:
$ mysql --user root --password Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql>
Username for OS system administration:
Login as root except on AWS marketplace which uses username admin.
- Point your browser to:
- https://12.34.56.789:12321/ - System control panel
- https://12.34.56.789:12320/ - Web based command line terminal
- Login with SSH client:
ssh root@12.34.56.789
Special case for AWS marketplace:
ssh admin@12.34.56.789
* Replace 12.34.56.789 with a valid IP or hostname.