Ghost is a free, open, simple blogging platform. Visit the project's website at http://ghost.org, or read the docs on http://support.ghost.org.
To get your own Ghost blog running on Heroku, click the button below:
Fill out the form, and you should be cooking with gas in a few seconds.
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After deployment, visit the admin area at
YOURAPPNAME.herokuapp.com/ghostto set up your blog. -
Your blog will be publicly accessible at
YOURAPPNAME.herokuapp.com. -
To make changes to your Ghost blog (like adding a theme to the
/contentdirectory, for instance), clone your blog locally using the Heroku Toolbelt:heroku git:clone --app YOURAPPNAME
Heroku app filesystems aren’t meant for permanent storage, so when it comes to file uploads for a Ghost blog deployed to Heroku, you have two options:
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Configure S3 file storage. Create an S3 bucket on Amazon AWS, and then specify your
S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID,S3_ACCESS_SECRET_KEY, andS3_BUCKET_NAMEas environment variables on Heroku’s deployment page. Once your app is up and running, you’ll be able to upload images via the Ghost UI and they’ll be stored in Amazon S3. ✨ -
Disable file uploads. Leave all the S3-related environment variable fields blank on Heroku’s deployment page and file uploads will be disabled. Ghost will ask you for external URLs instead of allowing images to be uploaded. If you don’t know what S3 is, this is the option you want.
ProTip™: You can start off with file uploads disabled, and specify all your S3 environment variables at a later stage. You aren’t stuck with the decision you make on the original deploy. 😁
This repository is essentially a minimal web application that specifies Ghost as a dependency, and makes a deploy button available.
If you have problems using your instance of Ghost, you should check the official documentation or open an issue on the official issue tracker. If you discover an issue with the deployment process provided by this repository, then open an issue here.
Released under the MIT license, just like the Ghost project itself.