Web site builder

[SCHISCHKA]

Years ago when I was exploring SEO I built a portfolio website for a customer that would take a HTML template and a config file; then generate an entire site with static web pages with a bash script. What I did was a one off experiment and i lost the files. I'm wondering is there any content management or site builder out there that is open source, takes a template and config file as input, then generates static web pages?

[AlTech]

14 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

Years ago when I was exploring SEO I built a portfolio website for a customer that would take a HTML template and a config file; then generate an entire site with static web pages with a bash script. What I did was a one off experiment and i lost the files. I'm wondering is there any content management or site builder out there that is open source, takes a template and config file as input, then generates static web pages?

Not to my knowledge.

[vorticalbox]

https://getnikola.com/getting-started.html

[dannytech357]

Could it be you're looking for Jekyll? It allows you to put most of your data in a config file, then create a template, write some posts, run a command, and it will generate static pages from all of the content. If you're looking for a place to host it, use GitHub Pages, which simplifies the process by compiling using Jekyll for you when you git push, then is hosted at https://username.github.io/repository-name (free SSL certificate, and you can apply a custom domain if you want). GitHub Pages is completely free, forever.