Overall Assumptions

• Our current install has only been tested on Ubuntu 24.04 servers but it should work on any Linux based OS that can install and run Docker
• The main thing that mightn’t work is the migration script, if something fails there it’ll be some of the random bash commands

Contents

1. New Installs
2. Upgrades
3. Migrating a Ghost-CLI Install
4. Tinybird Integration (for analytics)

New Installs

Requirements

• You need a Linux based server with Docker installed
• A domain name pointed at your server
• An email service (See https://ghost.org/docs/config/#mail)

Steps

Ghost Install

1. Clone the repo to your server in /opt/ghost: git clone [<https://github.com/TryGhost/ghost-docker.git>](<https://github.com/TryGhost/ghost-docker.git>) /opt/ghost
2. Run cd /opt/ghost to change directory into the cloned repo
3. Run cp .env.example .env and cp caddy/Caddyfile.example caddy/Caddyfile to setup the example files
4. Edit the .env file filling out the below values:
   1. DOMAIN : Set this to the domain you want your Ghost site to be on
      1. If you have a separate Admin Domain, fill out ADMIN_DOMAIN with your Admin domain
   2. DATABASE_ROOT_PASSWORD : generate a random password with openssl rand -hex 32
   3. DATABASE_PASSWORD : Generate a random password using openssl rand -hex 32
   4. Fill out the Email options at the bottom of the file