# Dokploy Ghost 6.0
**URL:** https://forum.ghost.org/t/dokploy-ghost-6-0/59641
**Category:** Using Ghost
**Created:** [August 16, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/dokploy-ghost-6-0/59641 "2025-08-16T12:32:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@KBExit](https://forum.ghost.org/u/KBExit)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/dokploy-ghost-6-0/59641/1 "2025-08-16T12:32:07Z")
Had anyone deployed docker image of the official ghost using Dokploy yet?
I was having issues with CloudPanel and Ghost CLI so I have scrapped my entire VPS to install Dokploy and pursue it this way (ability to run backups easily).
I don’t see any guides on this and the standard template is the older version and I can’t seem to get it to work.
First time user with Docker and would love all the help! I need something for a local car club to send email notifications for new car meets. So it’s not a large site.
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### Author:  [@jannis](https://forum.ghost.org/u/jannis)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/dokploy-ghost-6-0/59641/2 "2025-08-16T15:16:12Z")
Given that the Social Web and Traffic Analytics features will need proxying set up properly, I do not see an easy “click-this-and-deploy” path using Dokploy or other similar tools for Ghost 6.
Dokploy – afaik – uses a Traefik reverse proxy on a cluster level. You could add some rules in there that properly forward the necessary requests.
There is plenty of discussion on the proxying setup, so you could have a look at that.
The rules you’d need to set up are the ones in these snippets (for Caddy):
> **[ghost-docker/caddy/snippets at main · TryGhost/ghost-docker](https://github.com/TryGhost/ghost-docker/tree/main/caddy/snippets)**
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Quite honestly, the easiest setup would be the Docker Compose in the `ghost-docker` repository. Just install Docker on your VPS, and run that. Additionally, you may want to harden your VPS with common security practice (disable password for SSH, disable root login on SSH, set up a firewall, etc.), but other than that, you’re good to go with the `ghost-docker` repository. No need to overcomplicate things with Dokploy or something similar.
If you want backups, there are projects like these:
> **[GitHub - offen/docker-volume-backup: Backup Docker volumes locally or to any S3,...](https://github.com/offen/docker-volume-backup)**
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> Backup Docker volumes locally or to any S3, WebDAV, Azure Blob Storage, Dropbox, Google Drive or SSH compatible storage
Though, the least complicated thing (without needing to update the compose file from `ghost-docker`) would be a cronjob that runs a shell script, backing up the MySQL database and content folder. I have instructions for that [here](https://www.magicpages.co/blog/how-to-migrate-to-magic-pages-without-losing-any-data/#self-hosting-with-docker). The upload to an offsite location is missing, but common tools like `s3cmd` can be your friend.
And yes, in retrospect, that doesn’t sound very “simple”. But I stand with my opening statement: I don’t see this work “out of the box” with tools like Dokploy.
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### Author:  [@jannis](https://forum.ghost.org/u/jannis)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/dokploy-ghost-6-0/59641/3 "2025-08-17T22:09:48Z")
@KBExit I love being wrong 😃
This looks like a neat solution:
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### Author:  [@KBExit](https://forum.ghost.org/u/KBExit)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/dokploy-ghost-6-0/59641/4 "2025-08-17T23:15:55Z")
Lol talk about timing, I just switched back to CloudPanel and have Dockge installed in a reverse proxy. Maybe I can use that?