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Switching from root to ghost user; forever and database permissions issue

Posted on by Ahmed Amayem

The situation You’ve installed ghost on your server (in my case centos) You’ve installed forever You’re running ghost through forever as root. The only problem is you don’t want to run it as root as it is not a good idea to be running ghost, or any public app as root or with root priveleges.…

Running a Node.js app (ghost) with forever and crontab on linux (CentOS)

Posted on by Ahmed Amayem

Pre-requisites Root access to your server or have access to an account that has sudo powers on your servers – Instructions here to see how to give a linux user sudo powers. nodejs and npm installed – Instructions here. ghost installed and a ghost user made to run ghost – Instructions here What is forever…