hugo/content/en/commands/hugo_server.md

---
date: 2018-08-17
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 [flags]
```

### 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            (deprecated) if true, all relative URLs will be canonicalized using baseURL
      --cleanDestinationDir     remove files from destination not found in static directories
  -c, --contentDir string       filesystem path to content directory
  -d, --destination string      filesystem path to write files to
      --disableFastRender       enables full re-renders on changes
      --disableKinds strings    disable different kind of pages (home, RSS etc.)
      --disableLiveReload       watch without enabling live browser reload on rebuild
      --enableGitInfo           add Git revision, date and author info to the pages
      --forceSyncStatic         copy all files when static is changed.
      --gc                      enable to run some cleanup tasks (remove unused cache files) after the build
  -h, --help                    help for server
      --i18n-warnings           print missing translations
      --ignoreCache             ignores the cache directory
  -l, --layoutDir string        filesystem path to layout directory
      --liveReloadPort int      port for live reloading (i.e. 443 in HTTPS proxy situations) (default -1)
      --meminterval string      interval to poll memory usage (requires --memstats), valid time units are "ns", "us" (or "µs"), "ms", "s", "m", "h". (default "100ms")
      --memstats string         log memory usage to this file
      --navigateToChanged       navigate to changed content file on live browser reload
      --noChmod                 don't sync permission mode of files
      --noHTTPCache             prevent HTTP caching
      --noTimes                 don't sync modification time of files
      --pluralizeListTitles     (deprecated) pluralize titles in lists using inflect (default true)
  -p, --port int                port on which the server will listen (default 1313)
      --preserveTaxonomyNames   (deprecated) 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
      --templateMetrics         display metrics about template executions
      --templateMetricsHints    calculate some improvement hints when combined with --templateMetrics
  -t, --theme string            theme to use (located in /themes/THEMENAME/)
      --themesDir string        filesystem path to themes directory
      --uglyURLs                (deprecated) 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

```
      --config string    config file (default is path/config.yaml|json|toml)
      --debug            debug output
      --log              enable Logging
      --logFile string   log File path (if set, logging enabled automatically)
      --quiet            build in quiet mode
  -v, --verbose          verbose output
      --verboseLog       verbose logging
```

### SEE ALSO

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

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