+++ 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 --help`. ## init Creates the directory structure used by Gutenberg at the given directory. ```bash $ gutenberg init my_site ``` will create a new folder named `my_site` and the files/folders needed by Gutenberg. ## build This will build the whole site in the `public` directory. ```bash $ gutenberg build ``` You can override the config `base_url` by passing a new URL to the `base-url` flag. ```bash $ 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. ```bash $ 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: ```bash $ gutenberg --config config.staging.toml build ``` ## serve 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. ```bash $ 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: ```bash $ gutenberg --config config.staging.toml serve ```