Deploying a custom ghost build in production

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I made a fork and added some changes to core (server side), specifically the email template. Things work fine locally, but now I’m at a loss as to how to deploy it to production. I’m looking to use Render as my hosting service, and they have instructions on how to use their ready-made Ghost docker image, but nothing custom.

Looking through the forum, it seems like previously the suggestion was to use grunt release to produce a zip file and then upload that?

Is that still the case? Many of the other grunt commands seem to have been deprecated.

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I’m not sure if Render supports installing via the Ghost CLI, but if it does, you can just install from zip:

ghost install --zip /path/to/zip

Since Render is more of a PaaS, you probably won’t want to setup nginx, SSL, and use a local process manager since Render will probably manage the process.

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Thanks! What’s the right command to create a release zip? Some other docs show grunt release but I wasn’t able to run that successfully…

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grunt release is definitely the right way to go - you can see how it’s done here:

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Ok, I was able to get grunt release to complete. I then uploaded the release zip file to my GCP Compute Engine vm, but when I run ghost install -zip I get the following error:

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Any idea what I’m doing wrong? Also, thank you so much for helping me!

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Make sure you don’t change the package.json name from ghost :)