Context These are instructions for how to upgrade a self-installed ghost blog on a linux server (These instructions are used on CentOS 6). It assumes you have installed ghost yourself. This was used to upgrade ghost from 0.4 to 0.5. In this case the old ghost directory was located at /var/www/ghost. First Step Make a…
Pre-requisites Root access to your server or have access to an account that has sudo powers on your servers – Instructions here to see how to give a linux user sudo powers. nodejs and npm installed – Instructions here. Installing Where to install First let’s decide where to put the ghost directory. I chose /var/www/,…
I will be using centos logging in through ssh. I assume you have git installed. If not simply issue this command: yum install git To install new themes in ghost we need to put the new themes in the ghostdir/content/themes directory. So first thing’s first let’s go there. [ahmed@amayem ~]$ cd /var/www/ghost/content/themes/ You should be…