NAME

       webgen - a fast, powerful and extensible static website generator

SYNOPSIS

       webgen [global options] command [command arguments] [command [command arguments] ...] [args]

DESCRIPTION

       webgen  is  used to generate static websites from content files written in a markup language and template
       files. You create one template file in which you define the layout of your pages and  where  the  content
       should  go.  After  that you create content files called page files in which you only define the content.
       webgen merges the page's content into the template and generates the final HTML output. During  the  last
       step so called webgen tags are substituted so that, for example, menus can automatically be generated.

GLOBAL OPTIONS

       -d, --directory DIR
              Set the website directectory. if none specified, the current directory is used.

       -v, --verbose
              Show more output by default.

       -q, --quiet
              Show less output by default. If this option is specified, then no output is shown during rendering
              of a website.

       -l, --log-level LEVEL
              Set  the  logging  level to LEVEL which can be a number between 0 (debug output) and 3 (only error
              output).

       -h, --help
              Show generic help.

       --version
              Show the version of the program and exit.

COMMANDS

       apply  Applies a website bundle to an existing website. The bundle argument may either be the name  of  a
              bundle shipped with webgen or an URL to a (gzipped) tar archive bundle.

       create Creates  the  basic  directories  and  files  for  webgen.   This  includes  the source and output
              directories as well as an empty extensions directory.  Also, a basic template plus a  CSS  and  an
              index file are created.  Takes the directory to create the webgen structure in as an argument.

       help   Provides help for the individual commands.

       render Runs  webgen which will result in the generation of the HTML data in the output directory from the
              files in the source directory.  This command is used as the default command when  no  command  was
              issued.

       version
              Shows the version of the program and exit.

       webgui Starts the webgen webgui, a browser based graphical user interface for manging webgen websites.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       webgen's behaviour is affected by the following environment variables:

       WEBGEN_WEBSITE
              If  no  website  is  specified via the -d option and this variable is set, webgen assumes that its
              content is the webgen website directory that should be used.

SEE ALSO

       The webgen website, http://webgen.rubyforge.org/ for more information.

AUTHOR

       webgen was written by Thomas Leitner <t_leitner@gmx.at>

       This manual page was written by Paul van Tilburg <paulvt@debian.org> for the Debian project (but  may  be
       used  by  others).   This  manual  page  was  update  to  reflect  webgen  0.4  change  by  Arnaud Cornet
       <arnaud.cornet@gmail.com>.  This manual page was updated  to  reflect  webgen  0.5.x  changes  by  Thomas
       Leitner <t_leitner@gmx.at>.

                                                    July 2008                                          WEBGEN(1)