Ghost on Dokploy

For anyone wrestling with getting Ghost set up on Dokploy this post is for you.

You should be able to use the Docker Compose below to get Ghost running on Dokploy. You should also change the passwords in the file to something more secure.

version: '3.1'

services:
  ghost:
    image: ghost:5-alpine
    restart: always
    depends_on:
      - ghost_db
    environment:
      database__client: mysql
      database__connection__host: ghost_db
      database__connection__user: root
      database__connection__password: password
      database__connection__database: ghost
      url: 'https://blog.example.com'
    volumes:
      - ghost:/var/lib/ghost/content
    networks:
      - dokploy-network

  ghost_db:
    image: mysql:8.0
    restart: always
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: password
      MYSQL_DATABASE: ghost
    volumes:
      - ghost_db:/var/lib/mysql
    networks:
      - dokploy-network
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "mysqladmin", "ping", "-h", "localhost"]
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 5

networks:
  dokploy-network:
    external: true

volumes:
  ghost:
  ghost_db:

In the domain settings, you should set the port to be 2368 and switch on the https option with None as the certificate. To then log in to your (hopefully now working) Ghost instance, head to blog.example.com/ghost and create an account.