SYNOPSIS

hugo server [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

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.

OPTIONS

--appendPort[=true]
    append port to baseurl

-b, --baseURL=""
    hostname (and path) to the root, e.g.  <http://spf13.com/>

--bind="127.0.0.1"
    interface to which the server will bind

-D, --buildDrafts[=false]
    include content marked as draft

-F, --buildFuture[=false]
    include content with publishdate in the future

--cacheDir=""
    filesystem path to cache directory. Defaults: $TMPDIR/hugo_cache/

--canonifyURLs[=false]
    if true, all relative URLs will be canonicalized using baseURL

--cleanDestinationDir[=false]
    Remove files from destination not found in static directories

--config=""
    config file (default is path/config.yaml|json|toml)

-c, --contentDir=""
    filesystem path to content directory

-d, --destination=""
    filesystem path to write files to

--disable404[=false]
    Do not render 404 page

--disableLiveReload[=false]
    watch without enabling live browser reload on rebuild

--disableRSS[=false]
    Do not build RSS files

--disableSitemap[=false]
    Do not build Sitemap file

--forceSyncStatic[=false]
    Copy all files when static is changed.

--ignoreCache[=false]
    Ignores the cache directory

-l, --layoutDir=""
    filesystem path to layout directory

--meminterval=100
    interval to poll memory usage (requires --memstats)

--memstats=""
    log memory usage to this file

--noTimes[=false]
    Don't sync modification time of files

--pluralizeListTitles[=true]
    Pluralize titles in lists using inflect

-p, --port=1313
    port on which the server will listen

--preserveTaxonomyNames[=false]
    Preserve taxonomy names as written ("Gérard Depardieu" vs "gerard-depardieu")

--renderToDisk[=false]
    render to Destination path (default is render to memory  serve from there)

-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/

-w, --watch[=true]
    watch filesystem for changes and recreate as needed

OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS

--log[=false]
    Enable Logging

--logFile=""
    Log File path (if set, logging enabled automatically)

-v, --verbose[=false]
    verbose output

--verboseLog[=false]
    verbose logging