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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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
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