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Grav CMS on Debian

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Updated 28-Jun-2024

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This post will be frequently (or infrequently) updated. It is meant to help me learn Grav and Gravcart, and in particular migrate off of WordPress and Woocommerce.
- Grav CMS on Debian
Grav, Gravcart vs. WordPress, Woo
Installing and Configuring Grav
File Rights
Resources for Grav and Gravcart

This post will be frequently (or infrequently) updated. It is meant to help me learn Grav and Gravcart, and in particular migrate off of WordPress and Woocommerce.

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- Grav CMS on Debian

Grav, Gravcart vs. WordPress, Woo

WordPress and Woocommerce have such overhead, including dependencies such as MySQL, that it is important to seek out a functional but higher performing option to manage modern websites and web storefronts.

Installing and Configuring Grav

The best approach is to download the Grav + Admin zip file, unzip and move contents to the webroot. I've had issues with using github and composer, so the zip file is a less problematic place to start. ... details to come ... Finally run bin/grav install to get plugin and theme dependencies

bin/grav install

File Rights

I've found that permissions get jammed every now and then. Overwriting them with a script is the easiest approach, as follows:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/WEBROOT
find /var/www/WEBROOT -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;
find /var/www/WEBROOT -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;
find /var/www/WEBROOT -type f -exec chmod 0664 {} \;
find /var/www/WEBROOT/bin -type f -exec chmod 0755 {} \;

Resources for Grav and Gravcart