i'm currently on Ghost Pro. Have written a few articles. Would migrate on digital ocean

Posted on January 20, 2020

Hi, i’m currently on Ghost Pro. Have written a few articles. Would like to self-host on digital ocean and transfer the articles over Please help asap

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KFSys

January 26, 2020

Hi @sufyanshah1119,

Before starting your migration I’ll urge you to read the following documentation from DigitalOcean - https://www.digitalocean.com/customers/ghost/

I’m not sure if there is a more automated way however here are the basis of it :

Assuming you’re starting with a new droplet, the steps right now are something like:

Setup the new droplet
Install Ghost/use the Ghost One Click App
Copy across the contents of the /content/ folder
Export your JSON on your old site
Import your JSON on your new site
Manually fix anything to do with the API or integrations, as no api clients or keys are copied over at the moment
Double check everything looks good, particularly around newer features like routing or redirects
Switch your DNS & configure your domain on the new droplet

Alternatively, rebuilt your website on a DigitalOcean droplet directly.

Regards, KDSys