I am following this tutorial here (How To Host Ghost with Nginx on DigitalOcean) but I am stuck on the step to copy my local files over to my Digital Ocean web server. I am pretty confused as to whether or not I have to FTP or something, or whether I have to create another droplet/VPS and install ghost on there, and then copy everything from my local machine to the new VPS instance.
Ideally, I would like to just be able to edit my local blog and deploy straight from there, but it seems very difficult.
update: this imported my posts, but not the theme I installed or the images. I guess you could reinstall the theme at digitalocean and ssh the images any custom css you did to the theme?
On your Mac go to127.0.0.1:2368/ghost/debug and export. Then go to the your Digital Ocean ipaddress/ghost/debug and import.
https://ghost.org/forum/installation/3067-migrating-from-a-local-ghost-blog-on-mac-to-digital-ocean/
original post: Copying the contents folder from local to digital ocean did not work for me. I copied my entire contents folder from local to digitalocean and renamed the existing digitalocean content folder. This breaks the blog. I am searching now for a migration how to. I will update this if I find the answer.