# What is the best way to change the domain of a Ghost installation? **URL:** \ **Category:** Installation\ **Created:** [January 27, 2019, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-change-the-domain-of-a-ghost-installation/5307 "2019-01-27T22:15:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![coyoterj](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/coyoterj/32/2437_2.png) [@coyoterj](https://forum.ghost.org/u/coyoterj)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-change-the-domain-of-a-ghost-installation/5307/1 "2019-01-27T22:15:33Z")
Hello! I would like to change my domain site, for example: [www.domain1.com](http://www.domain1.com) to [www.domain2.com](http://www.domain2.com) on the same server. Please, what is the best way to do this? - Ctrl + C / Ctrl + V and configure Nginx? - A new installation in domain2 and then I copy the domain1? ??? Thanks! - Ghost version: 2.12.0 - Dev: Linux Mint | Nginx - Production: Digital Ocean | Ubuntu | Nginx - Firefox | Chrome | Chromium ---
**Author:** ![acburdine](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/acburdine/32/4825_2.png) [@acburdine](https://forum.ghost.org/u/acburdine)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 10:53am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-change-the-domain-of-a-ghost-installation/5307/2 "2019-01-28T10:53:40Z")
@coyoterj I will actually be working on this feature pretty soon in Ghost-CLI, stay tuned for more updates 😄 ---
**Author:** ![marvin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/marvin/32/2455_2.png) [@marvin](https://forum.ghost.org/u/marvin)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-change-the-domain-of-a-ghost-installation/5307/3 "2019-01-28T15:08:38Z")
Probably the only way to do so is to download the content of your Ghost installation, re-install it with the new domain and re-upload the exported content until that feature is being added to Ghost-CLI. ---
**Author:** ![coyoterj](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/coyoterj/32/2437_2.png) [@coyoterj](https://forum.ghost.org/u/coyoterj)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-change-the-domain-of-a-ghost-installation/5307/4 "2019-01-28T15:58:58Z")
@acburdine Good news! I’ll stay tuned. 😉 @marvin That’s it then … Let’s go to work! 😀 I’m really enjoying the Ghost. Thanks from Brazil! ---
**Author:** ![marvin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/marvin/32/2455_2.png) [@marvin](https://forum.ghost.org/u/marvin)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-change-the-domain-of-a-ghost-installation/5307/5 "2019-01-29T12:10:39Z")
Good luck 😉 Glad you’re enjoying it. I’m a Ghost fan as well, finally I can leave WordPress behind for good 🤮 ---
**Author:** ![coyoterj](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/coyoterj/32/2437_2.png) [@coyoterj](https://forum.ghost.org/u/coyoterj)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 12:44pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-change-the-domain-of-a-ghost-installation/5307/6 "2019-01-29T12:44:44Z")
Hi! I have used several cms, being Drupal for a long time. Ghost, really is a beautiful surprise. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![akash47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@akash47](https://forum.ghost.org/u/akash47)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 8:48am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-change-the-domain-of-a-ghost-installation/5307/7 "2019-02-01T08:48:46Z")
Hi there, I’ve written up a guide for this when I’d done this. [https://akashsenapaty.com/changing-your-blog-address-on-ghost/](https://akashsenapaty.com/changing-your-blog-address-on-ghost/) Hopefully it’ll work for you without any glitches. (Backup things before using DigitalOcean snapshots so you have something to revert to) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/b/ba9ce5100b8bb264586f4f572545596b2ce3f081.png) [@system](https://forum.ghost.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-change-the-domain-of-a-ghost-installation/5307/8 "2019-02-15T09:03:33Z")
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