By whatspo
I set up a new droplet a couple of days ago, with the one-click GHOST install. (I wanted to start using Ghost with a new blog, so I decided to move away from shared hosting and into DO)
I also have a website built on wordpress that I need to migrate over this week. Now before I go blowing stuff up, and to avoid any unnecessary steps, could someone give me some breakdown as to how I add a wordpress blog to a Ghost-running droplet?
I started with the guide on here for installing wordpress on Ubuntu, but ran into some difficulties with the Apache install not working, and then have since backed away a little. Regrouping, and looking for advice now…
Anyone out there willing to guide an idiot through the basics? NOOB trying to learn, please help!
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Thanks for the advice! <br>I’d like to consider a few options (if there are any others?), <br>and look at the degree of difficulty first. <br> <br>This VPN stuff is not clicking with my brain 100% just yet… <br> <br>So just to make sure before I start digging into it, <br>does anyone else have any other easy/alternative ways to suggest here? <br>
Alright, thanks again Kamal. I had a look at the link you suggested.
<br>After searching around a bit more I found some other people with similar situations as mine.
<br>That helped me see the problem a little more clearly, I hope:
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<br>1) I have an existing wordpress website (with a lot of important content, archives etc. that needs to get transferred over to DO from my old shared host, without any hitches or screw ups by me. Ideally in the next week or so, if I can learn this stuff quickly enough.
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<br>2) I have a plan to start using Ghost for some new blogs, but no real content or anything to share as of now on those sites.
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<br>So (perhaps mistakenly?) I set up my droplet with the Ghost 1-Click install first. When I should have started with a 1-Click install of Wordpress first >>> then figured out how to set up Ghost later on…?
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<br>Would you say that the best way forward is to kill the droplet, start from scratch with a 1-Click WORDPRESS install? Then set up Ghost, nginx stuff afterwards?
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<br>Thanks for any help or suggestions you can offer.
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