natascha-rieter.nl — Grav CMS

Local development

Requires Docker. To set up from scratch:

make setup

This starts the container and installs all plugins listed in plugins.txt via GPM.

Other commands:

make start    # start the container
make stop     # stop the container
make install-plugins  # (re)install plugins from plugins.txt

Site runs at http://localhost:8080.

Repository structure

Path	Description	In git
user/config/	Site and plugin configuration	yes
user/pages/	Page content	yes (see deployment note)
user/themes/natascha/	Custom theme	yes
user/plugins/	Plugins (see plugins.txt)	no
user/accounts/	Admin credentials	no
user/data/	Runtime data	no
user/cache/	Generated cache	no

Deployment

Production is shared hosting. Deploy via FTP.

Initial deploy

Upload the full user/ directory (including locally installed plugins from user/plugins/).

Subsequent deploys

Only upload user/themes/ and user/config/. Do not overwrite user/pages/ — content is managed online by editors after go-live and a deploy would overwrite their changes.

Future improvement: once the site is live and content is stable, move user/pages/ to .gitignore entirely (Option 1). Content backups should be handled separately (e.g. a server-side backup solution), not via git.

Plugins

Plugins are not committed to git. The full list is in plugins.txt. To install locally, run make install-plugins. On the production server, plugins must be uploaded manually (no CLI access on shared hosting).