ghost static website generator

Ghost Static Website Generator

Generate static HTML files for custom ghost hosting and publish them on AWS S3 as static website. To host the static blog site under a path /blog (https://yourdomain.com/blog), the ghost needs to be hosted with the same path like https://content.yourdomain.com/blog.

If your blog is hosted under https://content.yourdomain.com and you want to host the static website under https://yourdomain.com/blog, this is not possible. Same applies for the other way around.

You can also replace certain text from the generated static files by passing the following arguments custom_replace_keys and custom_replace_values. For more details, refer Inputs and Example usage section. It doesn't support the multiline replacement as of now.

Optionally, you can either host the static files on AWS S3 or on AWS Amplify.

To host Static Blog on AWS S3, provide the following input parameters:

• s3_bucket_name (Make the bucket publicly accessible and enable static web hosting)

• aws_access_key_id

• aws_secret_access_key

• aws_region

To host Static Blog on already existing AWS Amplify application, provide the following input parameters:

• aws_amplify_app_id

• aws_amplify_branch_name

• aws_access_key_id

• aws_secret_access_key

• aws_region

Inputs

ghost_hosted_url

Required Ghost hosted URL endpoint. (ex: https://content.yourdomain.com/blog)

ghost_static_host_url

Required URL endpoint where static files needs to be hosted. (ex: https://yourdomain.com/blog)

custom_replace_keys

Optional Comma separated list of items that needs to be replaced from the items in custom_replace_values at the same index.

custom_replace_values

Optional Comma separated associated values for the item in custom_replace_keys.

root_index_jsonld

Optional Replace ld+json data in the root index file.

breadcrumb_root_index_jsonld

Optional Add Breadcrumb ld+json data in the root index file.

s3_bucket_name

Optional S3 bucket name to upload static HTML files.

aws_access_key_id

Optional AWS access key Id.

aws_secret_access_key

Optional AWS secret access key.

aws_region

Optional AWS region.

aws_amplify_app_id

Optional Amplify App id.

aws_amplify_branch_name

Optional Amplify branch name.

Example usage

name: Generate Static HTML files
uses: TrueSparrowSystems/ghost-static-website-generator@v4
with:
  ghost_hosted_url: "https://content.yourdomain.com/blog"
  ghost_static_host_url: "https://yourdomain.com/blog"
  s3_bucket_name: "your-s3-bucket-name"
  aws_access_key_id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }} # Accessing it from the gihub secrets
  aws_secret_access_key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }} # Accessing it from the gihub secrets
  aws_region: "us-east-1"
  custom_replace_keys: "key_1, key_2, key_n"
  custom_replace_values: "value_1, value_2, value_n"

Locally build and run with docker

docker build -t ghost-swg .
docker run -it --env-file .env.sample ghost-swg

Make appropriate changes to the .env.sample file. To Persist the generated HTML files in local (host system) directory, use bind mount option with docker run command, For example: -v /path/to/local/dir:/src/content