Ghost 4.0

mwolfe02

Ghost 4.0 just released today.

What is the recommended upgrade process for Ghost apps created with the one-click installer?

Note: I'm not expecting an immediate answer--the release is less than 24 hours old, after all--I just wanted to get the topic on the radar.

sean

mwolfe02 SSH to your Ghost app's shell user and run the following commands:

Be sure to back up your app and data first!

cd ~/apps/appname
export PATH=$PWD/node/bin:$PATH
npm update ghost-cli
cd ghost 
../node_modules/.bin/ghost update v3 --no-setup-linux-user
../node_modules/.bin/ghost update --no-setup-linux-user

You'll also need to add the ``--no-setup-linux-user` flag to the app start and stop scripts, eg:

/home/you/apps/appname/node_modules/.bin/ghost stop -d /home/you/apps/appname/ghost --no-setup-linux-user

mwolfe02

Finally got around to doing this today. Everything went smoothly. Thanks for the help, Sean!

joeycoleman

For reference of others.

I did not set the Site Route with SSL for Let's Encrypt, thus the site did not work as it was redirecting to HTTPS.

(I was an early Opalstack customer, Sean helped me manually set up Ghost, thus I took this opportunity to start anew with the autoinstaller)

kylotan

Looks like the version of Node on opal5.opalstack.com is v10.23.1, which is too old to run Ghost v4, so the update procedure doesn't work.

Node's current recommended version is v14.17.4 LTS, significantly newer. Could we get an update to this version?

sean

kylotan the Node installer now includes NodeJS v14 LTS in ~/apps/appname/node and the app is configured to use that version.

ppo

sean I just created a Ghost app and it's still Node Version: v10.22.1.

kylotan

Can you explain what that means in practice? My existing Ghost installation (added via the one-click installer if I remember correctly) uses the system Node which means the update instructions above cannot work.

sean

kylotan if you have an older Node app then you can install your own updated Node in the app directory like so:

cd ~/apps/appname
wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v14.17.4/node-v14.17.4-linux-x64.tar.xz
mkdir node
cd node
tar xf ../node-v14.17.4-linux-x64.tar.xz --strip 1
export PATH=$HOME/apps/appname/node/bin:$PATH

You'll also need to update your app's start and stop scripts to use your new node instead of the system node by adding the following line just after the first line:

export PATH=$HOME/apps/appname/node/bin:$PATH

Hope this helps 🙂

kylotan

Thanks!

For anyone else, a slight amendment to the above - that last command in the top snippet needed to be export PATH=$HOME/apps/appname/node/bin:$PATH

Also, I then had to use this command to upgrade from v3 to v4 (note the switch at the end):
../node_modules/.bin/ghost update --no-setup-linux-user

This is because there seems to be a long-standing bug in Ghost. (https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost-CLI/issues/711 - it says closed, but the comments at the bottom show that it isn't fixed.)

I also had to add the --no-setup-linux-user switch at the end of the ghost commands in the start and stop scripts.

sean

kylotan Thank you, posts updated! I have those extra steps in my notes for answering questions but forgot to come back to update this post :\

sean

ppo a newer Node is bundled with your app so you have to either:

Set your PATH environment variable to include /home/shelluser/apps/appname/node/bin or ...
Use the full path /home/shelluser/apps/appname/node/bin/node when you want to run the Node installed with your app.