Upgrading Ghost CMS to V4.0.1

Here is the upgrade process for a poorly self-hosted installation of Ghost.

The version was well out of date, so we add a few steps around cleaning npm dependencies with ghost buster.

ghost buster
  • I use n to correct node version to 12 after having some issues on my v14,
  • bringing ghost-cli up-to-date,
  • and the site installation to the latest of V3

before having a successful roll to with v4 update.

ghost update

And I'll include a video of the entire setup, until this point! Where I stopped recording and went into post-production. Here's all the exciting details.

Video of the upgrade process