Self-hosting simple-blog
2021/02/09 14:26
Simple steps to self-host your own instance of simple-blog
¶ Why?
Initially, simple-blog was created for my own use case. However, my younger brother wants a personal blog too, so I hosted another instance of simple-blog for him at realhuy.
To make it usable for other, non-tech people, I have to update many things in the admin page (to make the UX friendlier), as well as update the deployment process.
¶ What?
As stated in the introduction post, simple-blog uses Docker for deployment.
Now, to further simplify the whole process, I created a simple script to automatically build and publish the image to docker hub every time a new tag is out.
The docker hub repository can be found here: https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/nkhdo/simple-blog
¶ How?
So, the docker image is published, how to host simple-blog now?
There are 4 simple steps:
- Install docker and docker-compose
- Create
docker-compose.yml
file with this content:
version: "3.3"
services:
blog:
image: nkhdo/simple-blog:latest
ports:
- "3333:3333"
volumes:
- ./.env:/simple-blog/.env
- ./tmp/:/simple-blog/tmp/
- Create
.env
file with this content:
PORT=3333
HOST=0.0.0.0
NODE_ENV=production
SESSION_DRIVER=cookie
APP_KEY=your-secure-key
APP_URL=your-website-root
Remember to change APP_KEY
and APP_URL
. APP_KEY
can be generated at https://passwordsgenerator.net/
- Start the blog by running:
docker-compose up -d
¶ What next?
It’s still not easy enough, and requires some technical knowledge. I will try to make it simpler in the future (create a generator, maybe).