How to run ghost in the background

Thu 03 April 2014 in Command Line, Linux

For running ghost blog in the background manually, execute the following within your blog directory.

cd /path/to/your/install/  
nohup npm start &lt;/dev/null 1&gt;/path/to/your/install/logs/stdout.log
2&gt;/path/to/your/install/logs/stderr.log &

I perfer to run ghost in the background by using Supervisor.

First install supervisor

apt-get install supervisor

Make sure it's running

sudo service supervisor start

Create the config file

vim /etc/supervisor/conf.d/ghost.conf

\[program:ghost\]  
command = node /path/to/ghost/index.js  
directory = /path/to/ghost  
user = ghost  
autostart = true  
autorestart = true  
stdout\_logfile = /var/log/supervisor/ghost.log  
stderr\_logfile = /var/log/supervisor/ghost\_err.log  
environment = NODE\_ENV="production"

Start Ghost

supervisorctl start ghost

*EDIT*

I've switched to use the npm package Forever.

To install forever type
:::npm install forever -g
To start Ghost using forever from the Ghost installation directory type
:::NODE_ENV=production forever start index.js
To stop Ghost type
:::forever stop index.js
To check if Ghost is currently running type
:::forever list

Sources:
Supervisor information from ghost documentation