This document contains a brief guide for the installation of Gruta, the web content management system.
Install the Artemus and Grutatxt modules, available from:
You'll need at least Artemus 5.0.2 and Grutatxt 2.0.16 (please take note that these versions may be development ones, so you might need to download them from the Git repository).
If you want to use the DBI source driver, you'll need DBI and a corresponding DBD, of course. SQLite is fine and probably what you want.
These other Perl modules will be used if installed:
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Install Gruta's package:
$ perl Makefile.PL && make && su -c "make install"
Execute the gruta-mksite script as the user the web server daemon runs
as, for example www-data under Debian. Answer all the questions and
a suitable directory tree will be created. If you answer affirmatively
to the 'static urls' question, be sure to include the URL rewriting
instructions suitable to your webserver (see below).
Now your web server daemon should be instructed to use g.cgi (the
Gruta entry CGI program) as the directory index. Again, see below for
webserver configuration examples.
Point your browser to the URL. As it's the first time, an admin user
with a random password has been created and the program flow redirected
to the administration page. Select the admin user from the Users section
and set a new password. After that, move to the Configuration section and
make all the changes you need.
Create some topics. New topics will appear in the top menu. Clicking on
them will allow you to create new stories. If you create a topic with the
topic id info, the stories with ids about and legal will be magically
added to the top header. For the rest of your stories, create another topic.
One with id main will be OK.
# directory index
DirectoryIndex g.cgi
# protect the 'var' subdirectory (the Gruta raw
# storage depot) from being served via web
<Location /var>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Location>
# static URL rewriting instructions
RewriteRule ^/([0-9]+)\.html$ /?t=INDEX&offset=$1 [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /?t=SEARCH_BY_DATE&from=$1&to=$2 [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^/tag/(.+)\.html$ /?t=SEARCH_BY_TAG&tag=$1 [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^/tag/$ /?t=TAGS [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^/top/$ /?t=TOP_TEN [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^/(.+)/$ /?t=TOPIC&topic=$1 [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^/(.+)/index\.html$ /?t=TOPIC&topic=$1 [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^/(.+)/~([0-9]+)\.html$ /?t=TOPIC&topic=$1&offset=$2 [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^/(.+)/(.+)\.html$ /?t=STORY&topic=$1&id=$2 [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^/rss\.xml$ /?t=RSS [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^/sitemap\.xml$ /?t=SITEMAP [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^/style\.css$ /?t=CSS [PT,L]
# activate CGIs and set g.cgi as index
cgi.assign = ( ".cgi" => "" )
index-file.names = ( "g.cgi" )
# protect the 'var' subdirectory (the Gruta raw
# storage depot) from being served via web
url.access-deny = ( "/var" )
# static URL rewriting instructions
url.rewrite-once = (
"^/([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/?t=INDEX;offset=$1",
"^/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/?t=SEARCH_BY_DATE;from=$1;to=$2",
"^/tag/(.+)\.html$" => "/?t=SEARCH_BY_TAG;tag=$1",
"^/tag/$" => "/?t=TAGS",
"^/top/$" => "/?t=TOP_TEN",
"^/(.+)/$" => "/?t=TOPIC;topic=$1",
"^/(.+)/index\.html$" => "/?t=TOPIC;topic=$1",
"^/(.+)/~([0-9]+)\.html$" => "/?t=TOPIC;topic=$1;offset=$2",
"^/(.+)/(.+)\.html$" => "/?t=STORY;topic=$1;id=$2",
"^/rss\.xml$" => "/?t=RSS",
"^/sitemap\.xml$" => "/?t=SITEMAP",
"^/style\.css$" => "/?t=CSS"
)