I've had an installation of the ghost blogging platform on a DigitalOcean server for at least a year now. Everything was working great until 2 days ago, when I realized my blog is down.
I accessed the server, and saw that the process wasn't running. I started it again, but I don't have the content anymore, and no settings were saved.
Looking into the ghost folders, I see the /content/data folder with all the posts and images I had, but when I start the blog (just using node index.js) and I go to the url in the browser, I see the blog as if it's never been configured with a user, and no data is present.
How do I restore my configuration settings, and the content I used to have ?
Ok, it was a pretty stupid mistake on my side...
I was starting the server by just running index.js like this : node index.js
But when I initially started the ghost blog it was by running npm start --production
Ghost blog comes built with 2 databases - one for production use, and another for development purposes or anything else you want to play around with. When I started it in 'production mode' again I got my content and all the settings back. :)