---
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] [args]
```

### 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
  -c, --contentDir string      filesystem path to content directory
      --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
      --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
  -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)
      --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/)
      --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

```
      --clock string               set the clock used by Hugo, e.g. --clock 2021-11-06T22:30:00.00+09:00
      --config string              config file (default is hugo.yaml|json|toml)
      --configDir string           config dir (default "config")
      --debug                      debug output
  -d, --destination string         filesystem path to write files to
  -e, --environment string         build environment
      --ignoreVendorPaths string   ignores any _vendor for module paths matching the given Glob pattern
      --log                        enable Logging
      --logFile string             log File path (if set, logging enabled automatically)
      --quiet                      build in quiet mode
  -s, --source string              filesystem path to read files relative from
      --themesDir string           filesystem path to themes directory
  -v, --verbose                    verbose output
      --verboseLog                 verbose logging
```

### SEE ALSO

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

