Problems Running Project Pulled from Github Locally

Developer help
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I just joined a team that runs a few sites using Ghost. I am confused on how to configure as existing Ghost project to run locally. I understand and have read the documentation for starting a new project and running locally, but in this case, I pulled an existing project from Github that has a file structure of ghost/content, ghost/system/files, and ghost/versions/2.0.3. I’m a bit of a Ghost noob so sorry if this is a bad question but running ‘ghost start’ in the ghost directory returns “Working directory is not a recognizable Ghost installation.
Run ghost start again within a folder where Ghost was installed with Ghost-CLI.”

Running ‘ghost install’ in the ghost directory returns ‘Message: Current directory is not empty, Ghost cannot be installed here.’ I’m missing a connection on how ghost functions. Thanks for any help!

  • What’s your URL? This is the easiest way for others to debug your issue
  • What version of Ghost are you using?
    2.0.3
  • What configuration?
  • What browser?
  • What errors or information do you see in the console?
    “Working directory is not a recognizable Ghost installation.
    Run ghost start again within a folder where Ghost was installed with Ghost-CLI.”

‘Message: Current directory is not empty, Ghost cannot be installed here.’

  • What steps could someone else take to reproduce the issue you’re having?
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It looks like the person that set the project up messed up a bit! They included the entire Ghost installation rather than just the theme. The project structure is what your ghost directory will look like after running ghost install. It looks like the last version of Ghost they used is 2.0.3.