Publii is a light, ultra-fast, static (flat-file) content management system (CMS) with GUI to build an extremely safe, fast and stylish HTML for blogs, portfolios and company websites. It allows users and webmasters to create websites without the need of a separate database. Just download the web content files and enjoy!
It offers features that may not be available to other PHP based CMS, like WordPress Joomla or Drupal.
For one, it doesn’t need a database server, call it database-less. All of your content is stored in the content folder in Markdown (.md) files and the entire site structure and content is generated by Publii CMS.
It comes with features that you need like SEO friendly design, flexible CSS framework and more.
For more about Publii CMS, please check it homepage.
This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to install Publii CMS on Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 and 18.10.To get started with installing Publii CMS, please continue below:
Step 1: Install Node.Js
Publii CMS runs on Node.js, a java script runtime and framework. To install Node.js on Ubuntu from its LTS repository, run the commands below to install:
sudo apt update sudo apt install curl git python curl -sL | sudo -E bash - sudo apt install -y nodejs
After that, Node.js should be installed and ready to use as well.
Step 2: Install PM2 Process Manager
Another requirement for Publii CMS is PM2 process manager. To install PM2 package on Ubuntu, run the commands below:
sudo npm install pm2 -g
After that, your system should be ready for Publii CMS.
Step 3: Install Publii CMS
To get Publii CMS, you’ll want to clone it from Github to your home directory.To do that run the commands below
cd ~/ git clone
After that, change into Publii CMS folder by running the commands below.
cd Publii
Next, install NPM from the folder by running the commands below.
npm install
If you get the message below, fix the error by doing what’s recommended
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ npm update check failed │
│ Try running with sudo or get access │
│ to the local update config store via │
│ sudo chown -R $USER:$(id -gn $USER) /home/richard/.config │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
When you’re done, run the commands below to install Gulp. a dependency to run Publii CMS.
sudo npm install --global gulp gulp prepare-editor-css
Next, create these folders.
mkdir -p ~/Publii/app/src/helpers/vendor/tinymcjquery mkdir -p ~/Publii/app/src/helpers/vendor/tinymctinymce
Once Gulp has finished running, run the commands below to start up npm which is a server that Publii CMS runs on.
Make sure you NPM to install jQuery:
npm install jquery --save
Now you can run the Publii app:
npm run build
Please remember to have running the dev command in the second terminal process:
npm run dev
After that, you should be able to open your browser and browse to the server hostname or IP address.
That’s it!
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