Is it possible to move Ghost from one domain, i.e. www.foo.com to www.woohoo.com? Or, do I need to create a new droplet. I thought I was doing something simple and I have crated a major problem for myself.
I thought I could buy the “woohoo” domain, change the DNS settings and change the config files from foo to Woo. These simple steps didn’t work and now I’m in Error 502 Bad Gateway territory.
How do I move from foo to woohoo?
Is it possible for me to access my site without a web address? Silly me, I should have exported the site before doing anything.
Yes I did change the config url and did the ghost restart.
I set up a redirect from woo to foo. It worked.
Yes I think I did the DNS to the Droplet IP correctly, but I all I saw was “website coming soon”
I panicked because the website was “down” and changed everything back to the original settings, but I think I’ve created a problem now with 502 Bad Gateways.
I would feel more comfortable with things if I could log into my site with the ip address https://206.189.71.60/ and export the site. I would be happy to spin up another dropblem and import the site if that is easy.
I’m also thinking I might just pay for ghost hosting if they reply before I can figure this out. My site is down and I have people emailing me
Try ghost doctor in your terminal and see if something comes up.
Also check ghost log for any errors:
$ ghost doctor
$ ghost log
Check what port ghost listens to:
$ ghost ls
See if rebooting your droplet does anything:
$ reboot
EDIT:
Check if the port mentioned in ghost ls corresponds with the port mentioned in the nginx config file for your site, located at /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yourghostinstancename.conf
If not:
change port number in config.production.json file in ghost root folder to the port correct port number under “server” → “port”: 2386 (example)
I’m not sure how to diagnose this from Ghost Doctor
✔ Checking system Node.js version
✔ Checking logged in user
✔ Ensuring user is not logged in as ghost user
✖ Checking if logged in user is directory owner
✖ Checking current folder permissions
✔ Checking system compatibility
✔ Checking for a MySQL installation
My guess is still, that your port number got mixed up somehow.
Please navigate to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yourghostinstancename.conf
Open .conf file with sudo nano yourghostinstancename.conf and look for “proxy_pass”:
Note down Portnumber (eg. 2368)
Navigate back to your ghost root folder at /etc/var/www/ghost/
Type ghost ls to check if shown Port corresponds with the Port mentioned in the above mentioned nginx conf file. If yes, good. If not, follow these steps (still in ghost root directory).
sudo service nginx stop
sudo nano config.production.json
Change port to the above mentioned nginx port number.
@daniel1 Thanks for all of your help. I’d like to see if I can solve this:
Is it possible for me to access the site without the DNS resolving? I’d like to log in and export all of the contents. Then, import it into a ghost pro site.
