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.

On some Linux systems with Wine installed you might run into issues running beancms.com. See redbean.dev/#linux.

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