---
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. https://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/
      --cleanDestinationDir        remove files from destination not found in static directories
      --clock string               set the clock used by Hugo, e.g. --clock 2021-11-06T22:30:00.00+09:00
  -c, --contentDir string          filesystem path to content directory
  -d, --destination string         filesystem path to write files to
      --disableBrowserError        do not show build errors in the browser
      --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, author, and CODEOWNERS info to the pages
  -e, --environment string         build environment
      --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
      --ignoreCache                ignores the cache directory
      --ignoreVendorPaths string   ignores any _vendor for module paths matching the given Glob pattern
  -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
      --minify                     minify any supported output format (HTML, XML etc.)
      --navigateToChanged          navigate to changed content file on live browser reload
      --noBuildLock                don't create .hugo_build.lock file
      --noChmod                    don't sync permission mode of files
      --noHTTPCache                prevent HTTP caching
      --noTimes                    don't sync modification time of files
      --panicOnWarning             panic on first WARNING log
      --poll string                set this to a poll interval, e.g --poll 700ms, to use a poll based approach to watch for file system changes
  -p, --port int                   port on which the server will listen (default 1313)
      --printI18nWarnings          print missing translations
      --printMemoryUsage           print memory usage to screen at intervals
      --printPathWarnings          print warnings on duplicate target paths etc.
      --printUnusedTemplates       print warnings on unused templates.
      --renderStaticToDisk         serve static files from disk and dynamic files from memory
      --renderToDisk               serve all files from disk (default is from memory)
  -s, --source string              filesystem path to read files relative from
      --templateMetrics            display metrics about template executions
      --templateMetricsHints       calculate some improvement hints when combined with --templateMetrics
  -t, --theme strings              themes to use (located in /themes/THEMENAME/)
      --themesDir string           filesystem path to themes directory
      --trace file                 write trace to file (not useful in general)
  -w, --watch                      watch filesystem for changes and recreate as needed (default true)
```

### Options inherited from parent commands

```
      --config string      config file (default is hugo.yaml|json|toml)
      --configDir string   config dir (default "config")
      --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