Updating ghost at the press of a key

####### You run your own ghost blog in your own server, find it difficult to update to newer version, then you reached the right page

The upgrade is done in 4 easy steps,

Note: $1 represents the path to ghost installed directory

Step 1: Download the latest release of ghost, extract and change directory to ghost-latest

# $1 - path to the ghost blog installation directory

wget https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip
unzip ghost-latest.zip -d ghost-latest
echo "Downloaded latest ghost package"
rm ghost-latest.zip

#run installation from latest ghost installation files directory
cd ghost-latest

Step 2: Back up your current blog's data, copy entire folder from install directory to backup directory

echo "Backing up existing site to $1-bk"
cp $1 -R $1-bk

Step 3: Copy new files from ghost-latest directory to the install directory

echo "copying new files to installation directory $1"
cp index.js  $1
cp package.json $1
cp -R core $1

Step 4: Remove the ghost-latest directory as we have copied the latest files to install directory in the previous step. Then navigate to installation directory and start npm install in production mode

cd ..
rm ghost-latest -r
cd $1
npm install --production

With all four steps combined,

# $1 - path to the ghost blog installation directory

wget https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip
unzip ghost-latest.zip -d ghost-latest
echo "Downloaded latest ghost package"
rm ghost-latest.zip

cd ghost-latest

echo "Backing up existing site to $1-bk"
cp $1 -R $1-bk

echo "copying new files to installation directory $1"
cp index.js  $1
cp package.json $1
cp -R core $1

cd ..
rm ghost-latest -r
cd $1
npm install --production

click here to download the script

in your terminal execute the script like,

sudo bash upgrade-ghost.sh "[PATH TO GHOST INSTALLED DIRECTORY]"

If you want to create a permanent script with the installer configured to specific ghost installed path, then replace $1 with the path to ghost installed directory and save the script. Then you just have to enter the following in the terminal

sudo bash upgrade-ghost.sh