Bean CMS

A micro-CMS built with redbean.

Installation

There are currently two ways to run Bean CMS.

Executable

1. Download the latest release from the Releases page.
2. On MacOS/Linux, make beancms.com executable with chmod +x beancms.com.
3. On Windows/MacOS/Linux, run ./beancms.com -D ./.

Note: The -D flag is required for Bean CMS to be able to serve user uploaded images from the current directory.

Docker

A Docker Compose file is included in the project. Currently, Bean CMS is not on Docker Hub.

Steps to run with Docker:

git clone https://github.com/kevinfiol/beancms.git
cd beancms
docker compose up -d --build beancms

Note: Environment variables can be defined in .env. See .env.defaults for default values.

Development

System dependencies required for building:

• make
• zip

Note: watchexec is required for make watch to work.

# download dev dependencies
make download

# run
make run

# or start service and watch for changes
make watch