# ghost-contact-form
Add a beautiful, fully functional contact form to your Ghost blog or website without paying for external services.

*Not running on Ghost?* This solution also works with Gatsby, Hugo, Hexo, Nuxt and any other static site generator.

## Tutorial
- [Contact Forms in Ghost](https://atmolabs.org/contact-forms-in-ghost/)

## Prerequisites
- A supported version of Node.js
- npm to manage packages

## Quickstart Install

```
$ git clone https://github.com/styxlab/ghost-contact-form.git
$ cd ghost-contact-form
$ sh install.sh
```

## Configure

Adapt the `.env` file to your needs. The following variables must be defined.

```
SMTP_HOST = mail.server.com
SMTP_USER = user@server.com
SMTP_PASS = strong password
ALLOW_ORIGIN = https://your-blog.com
EMAIL_FROM = noreply@your-blog.com
EMAIL_TO = your@email.com
```

## Usage

```
$ node ghost-contact-svc.js
```

## Test Locally

[http://localhost:7000/v1/demo](http://localhost:7000/v1/demo)

## Deploy (More detailed info in the tutorial)

- copy the work folder `ghost-contact-form` to your server
- use a systemd unit to run `ghost-contact-svc.js` as a deamon
- configure your webserver to map endpoint `http://localhost:7000/` to a public endpoint, e.g. `https://api.your-blog.com/`
- Use the files in folder `ghost-admin` to configure your front-end

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