A publication is not a folder of files. It is a database of posts, a directory of images and a theme that ties them together, and a migration that carries one without the others produces a site that answers 200 and shows nothing.
This post exists so a migration of this publication can be proven to have carried real content rather than an empty install.
This post carries a token that only this migration knows: kapsule-ghost-sentinel-22927051bb4f8165. If that token can be read back through the destination public address, the destination is serving this publication real database and not a fresh install wearing its theme.
Ghost writes absolute addresses into generated output: the sitemap, the RSS feed, canonical tags and Open Graph metadata all carry the value of url from config.production.json. Move the files and forget that value and every link on the new host points back at the old one, which looks
Ghost keeps images, themes, settings and, on a SQLite install, the database itself under content/. Copy the application and leave that behind and you have moved a shell. The theme is a directory. The images are files with dated paths. The database is one file. All three travel together or
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