# How to run ghost server , database and client separately? **URL:** \ **Category:** Developer help\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-to-run-ghost-server-database-and-client-separately/15339 "2020-06-22T15:35:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Prateek\_kumar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/prateek_kumar/32/8412_2.png) [@Prateek\_kumar](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Prateek_kumar)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-to-run-ghost-server-database-and-client-separately/15339/1 "2020-06-22T15:35:24Z")
Hello, guys for a month I have been working on ghost but now I am facing a problem I want to know 1- If I can run ghost server (node.js) and client side separately and how to connect them to run the complete site? 2- I am trying to http-server . after grunt build but it is not working showing some errors? I am using latest version of ghost on ubuntu. Thank you in advance ---
**Author:** ![DavidDarnes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/daviddarnes/32/3533_2.png) [@DavidDarnes](https://forum.ghost.org/u/DavidDarnes)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-to-run-ghost-server-database-and-client-separately/15339/2 "2020-06-22T15:37:29Z")
> [@Prateek\_kumar](#): > > after grunt build but it is not working showing some errors? Are you running Ghost from source? I would advise following the suggested installation steps shown here: > **[How to install & setup Ghost on Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04](https://ghost.org/docs/install/ubuntu/)** > > A full production install guide for how to install the Ghost professional publishing platform on a production server running Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04. ---
**Author:** ![Prateek\_kumar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/prateek_kumar/32/8412_2.png) [@Prateek\_kumar](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Prateek_kumar)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-to-run-ghost-server-database-and-client-separately/15339/3 "2020-06-22T18:09:16Z")
Hi @DavidDarnes thanks for replying. I want to ask a small question that if it is possible to run ghost website independent of its backend server? Since [this](https://ghost.org/docs/install/ubuntu/?_ga=2.268229646.1456230442.1592822525-1689897054.1591203771) will install ghost on the server. And one more thing whenever I am running `http-server .` in **ghost/core/client/dist** folder so it should start the http-server but whenever I open the link which is `http://127.0.0.1:8080` It keeps on loading and gives the following output in the terminal ```auto (node:37982) [DEP0066] DeprecationWarning: OutgoingMessage.prototype._headers is deprecated [2020-06-22T18:31:50.096Z] "GET /ghost/ember-cli-live-reload.js" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36" [2020-06-22T18:31:50.101Z] "GET /assets/vendor.css" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36" [2020-06-22T18:31:50.111Z] "GET /ghost/ember-cli-live-reload.js" Error (404): "Not found" [2020-06-22T18:31:50.118Z] "GET /assets/ghost.css" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36" [2020-06-22T18:31:50.121Z] "GET /assets/vendor.js" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36" [2020-06-22T18:31:50.123Z] "GET /assets/ghost.js" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36" [2020-06-22T18:31:52.500Z] "GET /ghost/api/v3/admin/users/me/?include=roles" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36" [2020-06-22T18:31:52.502Z] "GET /assets/img/favicon.ico" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36" [2020-06-22T18:31:52.506Z] "GET /ghost/api/v3/admin/users/me/?include=roles" Error (404): "Not found" [2020-06-22T18:31:52.536Z] "GET /ghost/api/v3/admin/site/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36" [2020-06-22T18:31:52.538Z] "GET /ghost/api/v3/admin/site/" Error (404): "Not found" [2020-06-22T18:31:52.580Z] "GET /ghost/api/v3/admin/users/me/?include=roles" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36" [2020-06-22T18:31:52.582Z] "GET /ghost/api/v3/admin/users/me/?include=roles" Error (404): "Not found" [2020-06-22T18:31:52.594Z] "GET /ghost/api/v3/admin/site/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36" [2020-06-22T18:31:52.598Z] "GET /ghost/api/v3/admin/site/" Error (404): "Not found" ``` Thanks, Regards Prateek ---
**Author:** ![DavidDarnes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/daviddarnes/32/3533_2.png) [@DavidDarnes](https://forum.ghost.org/u/DavidDarnes)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-to-run-ghost-server-database-and-client-separately/15339/4 "2020-06-23T12:14:07Z")
Can I ask if you’re trying to run this install locally or on a production server? ---
**Author:** ![Prateek\_kumar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/prateek_kumar/32/8412_2.png) [@Prateek\_kumar](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Prateek_kumar)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-to-run-ghost-server-database-and-client-separately/15339/5 "2020-06-23T12:26:04Z")
@DavidDarnes Thanks for replying Currently I am running this locally. What I want is to run admin client separately and my site (localhost:2368) separately. Regards,Prateek ---
**Author:** ![DavidDarnes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/daviddarnes/32/3533_2.png) [@DavidDarnes](https://forum.ghost.org/u/DavidDarnes)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-to-run-ghost-server-database-and-client-separately/15339/6 "2020-06-24T11:08:00Z")
I think I understand, does that mean you want to host Ghost on a different server to your published site? If so then that sounds like you want to use Ghost as a Headless CMS. Check out this doc which goes into more detail: > **[Ghost Architecture – A modern, decoupled web application for professional...](https://ghost.org/docs/architecture/)** > > Ghost is structured with a robust JSON API at it's core, with a beautiful client app and a fully decoupled theme layer on the front-end – find out more!