Problem with the symlink on casper theme docker version

Using Ghost
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Hi, im using ghost via docker but i can’t edit the .hbs file to add an comment cusdis box beacuse the symlink is broken.
The casper theme folder appears like this:

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Can anyone help me? In my docker-compose.yml i have the content directory like this

    environment:
      database__client: sqlite3
      database__connection__filename: "/var/lib/ghost/content/data/ghost.db"

The volume:

    volumes:
      - ./content:/var/lib/ghost/content
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I have not been following how Ghost has been changing over the years. There are 2 ways to address this in my mind:

Option 1

  • Mount another volume, versions, where the theme files live, since, current in /var/lib/ghost/current is a symbolic link to the versioned directory in /var/lib/ghost/versions/x.y.z.

  • This, of course, assumes that you back up the content versions directory in the container using something like:

cd directory-where-you-store-content
docker exec ghost_tn tar cf - versions | sudo tar xf -

The above will create versions in the same directory where content lives.
Then you add versions to your volume mount and call it a day.

    - ./versions:/var/lib/ghost/versions

Option 2

I suppose you could just volume mount /var/lib/ghost and call it a day. I seem to recall that there were filesystem overlay issues which made that a problem. I think you can’t mount config.production.json on a mounted volume. Not to mention getting a clean version of the filesystem. So YMMV.

You might want to investigate Bitnami Ghost image. It seems to be a bit better documented, but it has a different approach to where things live.

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Thanks, i just change to new casper theme and its works perfectly.