Customizing a handlebars file not updating on the website

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Hello, I am new to Ghost, i tried the Ghost(Pro) version for a little while but I moved to a self-hosted VPS for customisation purposes, anyway, I am using Attila theme as my base and I did some customisation, like inserting text in the footer and so on, but when I upload the handlebars file to my server i don’t see any changes, do I have to run a ghost-cli command to update or compile something?

I am working by having a synced folder on my PC and uploading or syncing the handlebars file with SFTP withing vscode, after this, I refresh my website but i don’t see any changes. It still looks the same as before, like nothing changed, I even tried some extreme edits just in case I was missing something, but nope, nada, zip.

I am a complete noob when it comes to handlebars, i looked at the markup and it seemed easy, I guess it is not that straight forward or I underestimated it like most things in my life.

Could someone point me to the right direction?

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When you run Ghost in production, it uses some performance enhancements, like caching templates. So if you change a template, Ghost won’t know about it - you need to restart the instance for Ghost to pick it up.

In development mode, you won’t run into this, since these performance enhancements are intentionally not enabled :slight_smile:

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Thank you so much!

Solution:

With ssh navigate to your Ghost installation directory

e.g. /var/www/your-site

And just restart Ghost with the command

ghost restart

Voilà!

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