+++ 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, you will need 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