# Where the data is for ghost? like: posts, users etc

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/where-the-data-is-for-ghost-like-posts-users-etc/4805>\
**Category:** Developer help\
**Created:** [January 4, 2019, 3:11am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/where-the-data-is-for-ghost-like-posts-users-etc/4805 "2019-01-04T03:11:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![fizzil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c6cbf5/32.png) [@fizzil](https://forum.ghost.org/u/fizzil)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 3:11am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/where-the-data-is-for-ghost-like-posts-users-etc/4805/1 "2019-01-04T03:11:44Z")

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- What version of Ghost are you using?  
ghost2.9

- What configuration?  
Dockerfile:

```auto
FROM ghost:2.9
COPY config.production.json /var/lib/ghost/config.production.json
VOLUME $PWD/content:/var/lib/ghost/content
EXPOSE 2368
CMD ["npm", "start", "--production"]

```

config.production.json:

```auto
{
  "database": {
    "client": "mysql",
    "connection": {
      "host": "127.0.0.1",
      "port": 3306,
      "user": "root",
      "password": "anywhere",
      "database": "ghost"
    }
  },
  "mail": {}
}

```

docker-compose.yml

```auto
version: '3.1'

services:

  ghost:
    image: ghost:2.9
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 2368:2368
    environment:
      url: "http://localhost:2368"

```

- What browser?  
Chrome

- Start up  

before, I’ve created the database named `ghost` in mysql.  
but there’s nothing changed of this database after run ghost with `docker-compose up` and succeed to get the response from ‘[http://localhost:2368](http://localhost:2368)’.

```auto
mysql> use ghost;
Database changed
mysql> show tables;
Empty set (0.00 sec)

mysql>

```

so where the data is?

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**Author:** ![fizzil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c6cbf5/32.png) [@fizzil](https://forum.ghost.org/u/fizzil)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/where-the-data-is-for-ghost-like-posts-users-etc/4805/2 "2019-01-04T03:16:09Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/e/e78c7e1425c296c82ba21583d4472dea1ebb3997.png)

also, I’ve changed the theme, and can see the files: `massively-master`  
in the docker container.

```auto
root@e767518c617d:/var/lib/ghost# cd content/themes/
root@e767518c617d:/var/lib/ghost/content/themes# ls
casper	massively-master

```

but there’s nothing in my host content folder even if config with `VOLUME $PWD/content:/var/lib/ghost/content`

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**Author:** ![fizzil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c6cbf5/32.png) [@fizzil](https://forum.ghost.org/u/fizzil)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/where-the-data-is-for-ghost-like-posts-users-etc/4805/3 "2019-01-04T03:28:32Z")

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Project file structure:

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/f/f69b9ac56c0996f01eb8af09a671c7bf658971b0.png)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/b/ba9ce5100b8bb264586f4f572545596b2ce3f081.png) [@system](https://forum.ghost.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/where-the-data-is-for-ghost-like-posts-users-etc/4805/4 "2019-01-18T03:28:33Z")

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Closed on January 18, 2019, 3:28am UTC

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