yaws \- yet another webserver

.B yaws

[\fIOPTIONS\fR]

.PP

Yaws is fast lightweight webserver. It can run as daemon or

in interactive mode where it is possible to directly interact

with the webserver. Yaws is particularly good at generating

dynamic content. See the user docs for more information on that topic.

.TP

Interactive mode. This will start yaws in interactive mode with an erlang

prompt. All error_logger messages will be written to the tty as well in this

mode. Use this when developing yaws code.

.TP

Daemon mode. This will start yaws as a daemon.

.TP

Debug mode. This will produce some auxilliary error output for some

error conditions. The interactive option \fI-i\rR implies debug mode.

.TP

Use a different configuration file than the default. The default configuration file

when running as root is /etc/yaws.conf. When running as a non priviliged user, yaws

will search for its configuration file in the following order. First in

$HOME/yaws.conf, then in ./yaws.conf and finally in /etc/yaws.conf

.TP

Tells yaws to call \fImodule:start/0\fR at startup. This makes it possible

to startup user specific applications together with yaws.

.TP

Traffic trace mode. All traffic will be written to a trace file called trace.traffic

in the log directory.

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HTTP trace mode. All HTTP messages will be written to a trace file called trace.http

in the log directory.

.TP

HUP the daemon. This forces the daemon to reread the configuration file. It also makes

the daemon empty all its internal content caches. Hence when updating the doc root,

HUPing the daemon is the fastest way to see the content updates.

.TP

Stop the daemon.

.TP

output version information and exit

Written by Claes Wikstrom

.BR yaws.conf (5)

.BR erl (1)