Updating Deployed Ghost Instances

If you are on a version of Ghost which is from before the import/export UI was introduced in https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/2b7d0f054d59cfb47735fe3845f00515d1a0f036 (23rd June) you will first need to update to this version so that you can export your data.

Getting the import/export UI:

• Navigate to the place where you keep your deploy script
• run the deploy script with --refspec 6f32e9b75 to deploy this exact commit. (You may have to run git fetch first)
• Note The deploy script tends to fail to restart ghost, if this happens, login to your EC2 and do it manually

Exporting your data

• In your Ghost admin panel, navigate to /ghost/debug
• Click 'export' - a download will start automatically

Fixing the data

• For every post in the export, you need to change the key content to content_raw and then change content_html to content.
• Keep your exported and fixed json file somewhere safe

Updating to the latest Ghost

• You will need to update the config on your EC2 instance to point to the new port no (2368) and also to run index.js instead of app.js. Use the config script as a guide for what to edit, but basically:
  • sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/default - change app.js to index.js and 3333 to 2368
  • sudo vim /etc/init/ghost.conf - change app.js to index.js
• Run the deploy script (you may need the latest version)
• Restart nginx sudo service nginx restart and restart ghost sudo restart ghost
• Go to /ghost/login, register a new user as usual and login (note: this is your login from now on, it won't get overridden with the old data)
• Delete any fixtures you don't want
• Navigate to ghost/debug
• Choose import and import your fixed json file

Hopefully, everything worked and you now have your posts back