Configuration of the Gentics Content Management Platform using Linux

Gentics CMS

The Gentics CMS configuration can be customized by editing or adding .yml files in /cms/conf.

The available configuration options are described in the administration section of the Gentics CMS documentation, and in the description of the various features.

Gentics Mesh Content Repository

The configuration files for Gentics Mesh are in the config directory of Gentics Mesh’s working directory with the main configuration file being mesh.yml. Detailed information about configuration options can be found in the Gentics Mesh documentation.

Note that some Gentics Mesh features need additional configuration, e.g. clustering or the user interface.

Gentics Portal | php

The configuration files for Gentics Portal | php are in the config directory of the portal’s working directory with the main configuration file being portal.php.

The file itself contains the documentation as comments, so please read it carefully.

It is possible to configure Gentics Portal | php via environment variables and with .env file. Please check the .env.example file in your portal’s working directory for more.

Gentics Portal | java

The configuration files for Gentics Portal | java are in the config directory of the portal’s working directory with the main configuration file being config.yml. Detailed information about configuration options can be found in the Gentics Portal | java documentation.

Other noteworthy files are the keycloak.json needed for authentication and the cache.ccf configuration file for the JCS cache used by the portal.