Bypassing email confirmation for setup purposes

[GeekBone]

I am currently running Ghost on my home network. At this point, my network is not open to the internet in the sense I have not opened up my router yet to do that so I can only access things from inside my home.

I installed Ghost via docker on a linux machine and it seems to run fine. The problem is when I want to work and play around with it from a laptop, downstairs for example, when I log in, it tries to send an email verification. I know I could go in and setup email SMTP, etc, but really I just want to login and play around with it to see if this is something I want to use on a perminant basis.

TL;DR is there a way to bypass the email verification for localhost/home use?

I did add this line to my environment, but it did not make a difference.

security__staffDeviceVerification: false

[GeekBone]

I found another thread with the same question basically. I think we can close this post.

Using Ghost Docker Image without Email Integration

If you run ghost cms on docker you should add options to .env file. Because Ghost automatically picks up these variables. There’s no need to edit config.production.json manually—that’s a thing of the past, like rotary phones. So if you try to edit config.production.json it will not work. But if try to add options “staffDeviceVerification”: false and mail__transport=Direct. It should works without e-mail integrations…