Separate CMS for each Gatsby website in a monorepo

[adrw]

Describe the bug I've been working to configure a unique CMS for each Gatsby website in a monorepo on Github and can't find how to do that. I've copied the websites over from their previous locations in individual repos and updated the Git references in Netlify / Build / Deploy and Netlify / Identify dashboards but they still seem broken despite websites building and deploying successfully on Netlify.

To Reproduce Add multiple websites to a single repo, try to configure a unique Netlify CMS on each. Github login button (though enabled as a gateway in Netlify) are not shown on login page.

Expected behavior Each website in a repo has it's own CMS such that content from other websites is not shown. Stretch goal would be prefixing commit messages with the site that the git change refers to.

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[erquhart]

Ah, Gatsby - does each Gatsby site have it's own separate build or is the build somehow combined? Can you provide a repo that minimally reproduces this issue?

[adrw]

Each site has it's own build. The repo essentially has a directory sites/ that inside has a directory for each domain and each of those site domain directories is a complete Gatsby site and build.

Example: https://github.com/adrw/westegg/tree/2713280ea07db75a3bd3aba9e86fc968d720cffa/sites

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[phil-lgr]

@adrw have you been able to find a solution to this?

I've been trying to see how to configure the git-gateway "base dir" to my site

[phil-lgr]

So basically, git-gateway with netlify-cms doesn't support the case where the netlify site is not installed at the root?

if is possible to do this?

have the netlify site at /folder instead of root?

@erquhart

[erquhart]

Do you have any posts in your blog folder?

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[phil-lgr]

Well I got this working by putting the correct path to the different entries in config.yml, e.g.:

media_folder: packages/site-1/static/img

[phil-lgr]

Now what is awkward with git-gateway is that permissions are given for the whole repository.

So in a monorepo setup, the git-gateway for one site will allow access to the whole repository, I've opened an issue here: https://github.com/netlify/git-gateway/issues/38

[phil-lgr]

Ideally you would be able to tell git-gateway to only allow access to specific paths, something like:

# config.yml for site 1
backend:
  name: git-gateway
  accept_roles: 
    - admin
    - editor
  accept_content_routes: # <------ restrict content access to those paths only
    - packages/site1

# config.yml for site 2
backend:
  name: git-gateway
  accept_roles: 
    - admin
    - editor
  accept_content_routes: # <------ restrict content access to those paths only
    - packages/site2

[phil-lgr]

any thoughts @erquhart

[CallMeLaNN]

I'm not sure if I understand this, it still open. So Netlify CMS can't build from a folder yet?

I just wanted to structure a web monorepo that have a static site, cms, components, small backend. The cms is only one.

[miltonbolonha]

U guys can use npm workspace with multiples monorepos for multiple websites.