ghost

Ghost

Ghost is a publishing platform for blogs, newsletters, and online publications.

This stack runs Ghost with a Tailscale sidecar, as described in the standard setup.

At a glance

Item	Value
Web interface	https://ghost.<tailnet>.ts.net (site) and https://ghost.<tailnet>.ts.net/ghost (administration)
Service port	2368
Images	ghost:5-alpine
	mysql:8.0
Data	./ghost-data/ghost (themes, images, and settings)
	./ghost-data/db (MySQL database)

Before you start

• Set GHOST_URL in .env. Use the address of the site, https://ghost.<tailnet>.ts.net. Ghost does not start with the sample value and reports Invalid URL.
• Set MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD in .env. The password of the MySQL root user, which Ghost uses to connect to the database. Compose stops with an error if it is empty.

Deviations from the standard setup

• Extra container. The stack runs a db container with MySQL, named db-ghost. It uses the default Compose network, and Ghost reaches it by its service name through Docker's DNS. Keep TS_ACCEPT_DNS disabled, because MagicDNS cannot resolve that name.
• Service port. Ghost listens on port 2368. SERVICEPORT in .env is only the host port of the optional ports block.

First run

Open https://ghost.<tailnet>.ts.net/ghost and create the first account, which becomes the owner of the site.

Upgrading

Earlier versions of this stack had the password example for the MySQL root user in compose.yaml. The password is now MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD in .env. It is empty, and Compose stops with an error until you set it. If you already run the stack, set it to the password that you use now, because the database applies it only at the first start. If you kept the sample value, set MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=example again. The database still uses it.

Links

• Ghost documentation
• Ghost Docker image
• Ghost source code