+++ title = “CLI usage” weight = 2 +++
Gutenberg only has 3 commands: init, build and serve.
You can view the help of the whole program by running gutenberg --help and
the command help by running gutenberg <cmd> --help.
Creates the directory structure used by Gutenberg at the given directory.
$ gutenberg init my_site
will create a new folder named my_site and the files/folders needed by
Gutenberg.
This will build the whole site in the public directory.
$ gutenberg build
You can override the config base_url by passing a new URL to the base-url flag.
$ gutenberg build --base-url $DEPLOY_URL
This is useful for example when you want to deploy previews of a site to a dynamic URL, such as Netlify deploy previews.
+You can override the default output directory ‘public’ by passing a other value to the output-dir flag.
$ gutenberg build --output-dir $DOCUMENT_ROOT
You can also point to another config file than config.toml like so - the position of the config option is important:
$ gutenberg --config config.staging.toml build
This will build and serve the site using a local server. You can also specify
the interface/port combination to use if you want something different than the default (127.0.0.1:1111).
You can also specify different addresses for the interface and base_url using -u/--base-url, for example
if you are running Gutenberg in a Docker container.
$ gutenberg serve
$ gutenberg serve --port 2000
$ gutenberg serve --interface 0.0.0.0
$ gutenberg serve --interface 0.0.0.0 --port 2000
$ gutenberg serve --interface 0.0.0.0 --base-url 127.0.0.1
$ gutenberg serve --interface 0.0.0.0 --port 2000 --output-dir www/public
The serve command will watch all your content and will provide live reload, without hard refresh if possible.
Gutenberg does a best-effort to live reload but some changes cannot be handled automatically. If you
fail to see your change or get a weird error, try to restart gutenberg serve.
You can also point to another config file than config.toml like so - the position of the config option is important:
$ gutenberg --config config.staging.toml serve