This blog post is about installing Ghost 5 CMS on Ubuntu 26.04 OS with MySQL and Caddy. Ghost is a modern, open-source content management system (CMS) focused on professional publishing, blogging, and newsletters. It is designed to be fast, user-friendly, and lightweight, providing a distraction-free writing experience with built-in tools for memberships, paid subscriptions, and email marketing. It stores data in two primary locations: MySQL databases for structured content (posts, users, settings) and the filesystem for images and themes. Caddy serves as a reverse proxy and web server for the Ghost CMS, acting as the public-facing bridge that handles SSL/TLS certificates and directs web traffic to the Ghost application container.
Installing Ghost 5 CMS on Ubuntu 26.04 with MySQL and Caddy is a straightforward process that may take around 20 minutes. Let’s get started!