Run these commands to quickly and easily update ghost managed via serverpilot
While I'm in love with Ghost, one thing that could definitely be improved is the upgrade process. Though you would think that because of how nice Ghost's interface is, they would have auto-update capabilities out-of-the-box (which I'm sure will come eventually), but currently it's a very manual process.
I've compiled a list of commands that should automate the process slightly. Though I could turn this into a bash script, it's just as easy to copy and paste these commands into a terminal window.
Before running these, make sure you snapshot your DigitalOcean droplet. I'm not responsible if this breaks anything.
Make sure you're running as root.
sudo su
Then, cd to your app's root directory.
cd /srv/users/serverpilot/apps/<APPNAME>
The following commands may need to be modified slightly, depending on how you're getting your ghost instance to run automatically. I personally use pm2, but I know of others who are using forever. Also, my pm2 instance is named ghost. If yours differs, you will need to alter that as well.
Keep in mind, this may take 3-4 minutes to run through completely. If you have a lot of traffic, you may need to do this during a maintenance window.
pm2 stop ghost
cp -r public public_backup
wget https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip
unzip -o ghost-latest.zip -d public
cd public
rm -rf content
cd ..
cp public_backup/config.js public
cp public_backup/.htaccess public
cp -r public_backup/content public
cd public
npm install --production
pm2 start ghost
cd ..
chown -R serverpilot:serverpilot public
rm ghost-latest.zip
And then, when you're absolutely POSITIVE that everything is back up and running like it's supposed to be:
rm -rf public_backup