hugo/docs/content/commands/hugo_server.md

---
date: 2016-06-22T14:03:03+02:00
title: "hugo server"
slug: hugo_server
url: /commands/hugo_server/
---
## hugo server

A high performance webserver

### Synopsis


Hugo provides its own webserver which builds and serves the site.
While hugo server is high performance, it is a webserver with limited options.
Many run it in production, but the standard behavior is for people to use it
in development and use a more full featured server such as Nginx or Caddy.

'hugo server' will avoid writing the rendered and served content to disk,
preferring to store it in memory.

By default hugo will also watch your files for any changes you make and
automatically rebuild the site. It will then live reload any open browser pages
and push the latest content to them. As most Hugo sites are built in a fraction
of a second, you will be able to save and see your changes nearly instantly.

```
hugo server
```

### Options

```
      --appendPort              append port to baseurl (default true)
  -b, --baseURL string          hostname (and path) to the root, e.g. http://spf13.com/
      --bind string             interface to which the server will bind (default "127.0.0.1")
  -D, --buildDrafts             include content marked as draft
  -E, --buildExpired            include expired content
  -F, --buildFuture             include content with publishdate in the future
      --cacheDir string         filesystem path to cache directory. Defaults: $TMPDIR/hugo_cache/
      --canonifyURLs            if true, all relative URLs will be canonicalized using baseURL
      --cleanDestinationDir     Remove files from destination not found in static directories
      --config string           config file (default is path/config.yaml|json|toml)
  -c, --contentDir string       filesystem path to content directory
  -d, --destination string      filesystem path to write files to
      --disable404              Do not render 404 page
      --disableLiveReload       watch without enabling live browser reload on rebuild
      --disableRSS              Do not build RSS files
      --disableSitemap          Do not build Sitemap file
      --forceSyncStatic         Copy all files when static is changed.
      --ignoreCache             Ignores the cache directory
  -l, --layoutDir string        filesystem path to layout directory
      --meminterval int         interval to poll memory usage (requires --memstats) (default 100)
      --memstats string         log memory usage to this file
      --noTimes                 Don't sync modification time of files
      --pluralizeListTitles     Pluralize titles in lists using inflect (default true)
  -p, --port int                port on which the server will listen (default 1313)
      --preserveTaxonomyNames   Preserve taxonomy names as written ("Gérard Depardieu" vs "gerard-depardieu")
      --renderToDisk            render to Destination path (default is render to memory & serve from there)
  -s, --source string           filesystem path to read files relative from
      --stepAnalysis            display memory and timing of different steps of the program
  -t, --theme string            theme to use (located in /themes/THEMENAME/)
      --uglyURLs                if true, use /filename.html instead of /filename/
  -w, --watch                   watch filesystem for changes and recreate as needed (default true)
```

### Options inherited from parent commands

```
      --log              Enable Logging
      --logFile string   Log File path (if set, logging enabled automatically)
  -v, --verbose          verbose output
      --verboseLog       verbose logging
```

### SEE ALSO
* [hugo](/commands/hugo/)	 - hugo builds your site

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