hugo/docs/content/overview/usage.md
Anthony Fok f848dc92db [Docs] Update and expand http://gohugo.io/overview/usage/
The `hugo help` output as shown in http://gohugo.io/overview/usage/
was not yet updated for v0.13. Thanks to @alebaffa for the heads up!

Also:
 - Clarify that, after using `hugo server`, the bare `hugo` command
   need to be run before deployment.
 - Add a section on running `hugo` as production web server,
   and add links to two blog posts of two Hugo users sharing
   their experience.

Partially fixes: #852 and #937
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---
aliases:
- /doc/usage/
date: 2013-07-01
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parent: getting started
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title: Using Hugo
weight: 30
---
Make sure either `hugo` is in your `PATH` or provide a path to it.
<pre><code class="hljs nohighlight">$ hugo help
A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with
love by spf13 and friends in Go.
Complete documentation is available at http://gohugo.io
Usage:
hugo [flags]
hugo [command]
Available Commands:
server Hugo runs its own webserver to render the files
version Print the version number of Hugo
config Print the site configuration
check Check content in the source directory
benchmark Benchmark hugo by building a site a number of times
new Create new content for your site
help Help about any command
Flags:
--noTimes=false: Don't sync modification time of files
-w, --watch=false: watch filesystem for changes and recreate as needed
Global Flags:
-b, --baseUrl="": hostname (and path) to the root eg. http://spf13.com/
-D, --buildDrafts=false: include content marked as draft
-F, --buildFuture=false: include content with datePublished in the future
--cacheDir="": filesystem path to cache directory. Defaults: $TMPDIR/hugo_cache/
--config="": config file (default is path/config.yaml|json|toml)
-d, --destination="": filesystem path to write files to
--disableRSS=false: Do not build RSS files
--disableSitemap=false: Do not build Sitemap file
--editor="": edit new content with this editor, if provided
-h, --help=false: help for hugo
--ignoreCache=false: Ignores the cache directory for reading but still writes to it
--log=false: Enable Logging
--logFile="": Log File path (if set, logging enabled automatically)
--pluralizeListTitles=true: Pluralize titles in lists using inflect
-s, --source="": filesystem path to read files relative from
--stepAnalysis=false: display memory and timing of different steps of the program
-t, --theme="": theme to use (located in /themes/THEMENAME/)
--uglyUrls=false: if true, use /filename.html instead of /filename/
-v, --verbose=false: verbose output
--verboseLog=false: verbose logging
Use "hugo help [command]" for more information about a command.
</code></pre>
## Common Usage Example
The most common use is probably to run `hugo` with your current directory being the input directory:
$ hugo
0 draft content
0 future content
99 pages created
0 paginator pages created
16 tags created
0 groups created
in 120 ms
This generates your web site to the `public/` directory,
ready to be deployed to your web server.
## Instant feedback as you develop your web site
If you are working on things and want to see the changes immediately, tell Hugo to watch for changes.
Hugo will watch the filesystem for changes, and rebuild your site as soon as a file is saved:
$ hugo -s ~/Code/hugo/docs --watch
0 draft content
0 future content
99 pages created
0 paginator pages created
16 tags created
0 groups created
in 120 ms
Watching for changes in /Users/spf13/Code/hugo/docs/content
Press Ctrl+C to stop
Hugo can even run a server and create a site preview at the same time!
Hugo implements [LiveReload](/extras/livereload/) technology to automatically
reload any open pages in all JavaScript-enabled browsers, including mobile.
This is the easiest and most common way to develop a Hugo web site:
$ hugo server -ws ~/Code/hugo/docs
0 draft content
0 future content
99 pages created
0 paginator pages created
16 tags created
0 groups created
in 120 ms
Watching for changes in /Users/spf13/Code/hugo/docs/content
Serving pages from /Users/spf13/Code/hugo/docs/public
Web Server is available at http://localhost:1313/
Press Ctrl+C to stop
## Deploying your web site
After running `hugo server` for local web development,
you need to do a final `hugo` run **without the `server` command**
and **without `--watch` or `-w`** to rebuild your site.
You may then **deploy your site** by copying the `public/` directory
(by FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Rsync, git push, etc.) to your production web server.
Since Hugo generates a static website, your site can be hosted anywhere,
including [Heroku][], [GoDaddy][], [DreamHost][], [GitHub Pages][],
[Amazon S3][] and [CloudFront][], or any other cheap or even free
static web hosting services.
[Apache][], [nginx][], [IIS][]... Any web server software would do!
[Apache]: http://httpd.apache.org/ "Apache HTTP Server"
[nginx]: http://nginx.org/
[IIS]: http://www.iis.net/
[Heroku]: https://www.heroku.com/
[GoDaddy]: https://www.godaddy.com/
[DreamHost]: http://www.dreamhost.com/
[GitHub Pages]: https://pages.github.com/
[Amazon S3]: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
[CloudFront]: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ "Amazon CloudFront"
### Alternatively, serve your web site with Hugo!
Yes, that's right! Because Hugo is so blazingly fast both in web site creation
*and* in web serving (thanks to its concurrent and multi-threaded design and
its Go heritage), some users actually prefer using Hugo itself to serve their
web site *on their production server*!
No other web server software (Apache, nginx, IIS...) is necessary.
Here is the command:
hugo server --watch \
--baseUrl=http://yoursite.org/ --port=80 \
--appendPort=false
This way, you may actually deploy just the source files,
and Hugo on your server will generate the resulting web site
on-the-fly and serve them at the same time.
You may optionally add `--disableLiveReload=true` if you do not want
the JavaScript code for LiveReload to be added to your web pages.
Interested? Here are some great tutorials contributed by Hugo users:
* [hugo, syncthing](http://fredix.ovh/2014/10/hugo-syncthing/) (French) by Frédéric Logier (@fredix)
* [服务器上 hugo 的安装和配置 <small>(Installing and configuring Hugo on the server)</small>](http://hucsmn.com/post/hugo-tutorial-make-it-work/) (Chinese) by hucsmn