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NAME
       yaws - yet another webserver


SYNOPSIS
       yaws [OPTIONS]


DESCRIPTION
       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.


DEAMON/SERVER options
       -i | --interactive
              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.

       -w | --winteractive
              Cygwin  inteactive  mode  (werl) --daemon Daemon mode. This will
              start yaws as a daemon.

       --heart
              This will cause the yaws system to be automatically restarted in
              case  it  should  crash.  This  switch also require the --daemon
              switch to be present.

       --debug
              Debug mode. This will produce some auxilliary error  output  for
              some  error  conditions. It will also start the otp sasl lib for
              additional error printouts.

       --conf file
              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

       --runmod module
              Tells  yaws  to  call  module:start/0  at startup. This makes it
              possible to startup user  specific  applications  together  with
              yaws.

       --pa path
              Add path to the yaws system search path

       --tracetraf
              Traffic  trace mode. All traffic will be written to a trace file
              called trace.traffic in the log directory.

       --tracehttp
              HTTP trace mode. All HTTP messages will be written  to  a  trace
              file called trace.http in the log directory.

       --traceout
              When  yaws  is  put  into trace mode using either --tracetraf or
              --tracehttp, traces are written to  files.  If  we  provide  the
              --traceout flag, the trace will also be written to stdout.

       --trace
              Sames as --tracetraf --traceout. I.e. trace everything and write
              to stdout.

       --mnesiadir dir
              Start Mnesia in directory <dir>

       --sname xxx
              Start yaws as a distributed erlang node with  name  <xxx>  using
              the unqualified hostname as nodename postfix

       --name xxx
              Start  yaws  as  a distributed erlang node with name <xxx> using
              the fully qualified hostname as nodename postfix

       --proto_dist Mod
              Use module Mod for erlang distribution. This is  typically  only
              used when we want to run erlang distribution over SSL.

       --erlarg STRING
              Pass STRING as an additional argument to the "erl" program.

       --id ID
              This  flag  sets  the  id.  If  we’re  starting  a daemon (or an
              interactive system) it gives the Yaws server  the  identity  ID.
              This  means  that  the server will write all internal files into
              the directory $HOME/.yaws/ID.

              Yaws also creates  a  file  called  ${VARDIR}/run/yaws/ctl-${ID}
              which  contains  the  portnumber  the daemon is listening on for
              control request by the control command such as "yaws --hup" etc.

              If  we’re  invoking  a control command which should perform some
              control function on the daemon, we may have  to  give  the  --id
              flag  also  to  the  control  command.  If  we don’t do this the
              control command may  interact  with  the  wrong  daemon  due  to
              finding the wrong "ctl" file.

              The daemon may also optionally specify the "id" in the yaws.conf
              configuration file.


CONTROL OPTIONS
       The following list of options are are used to control the  daemon  from
       the "outside" while it is running.

       --hup [--id ID]
              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.

       --stop [--id id]
              Stop the daemon (called id)

       --ls   Lists  current  ids and status of all yaws servers on localhost.
              In practice this amounts to a listdir in $HOME/.yaws/yaws -  and
              check  wether  the different systems who has created files there
              are alive.

       --status [--id id]
              Query a running yaws daemon for its status, and print it.

       --load Modules [--id id]
              Try to (re)load erlang modules into a running daemon.   This  is
              useful after modifying appmods or modules used by scripts.

       --ctltrace [--id ID] http | traffic | off
              Control  the trace capabilities of a running yaws daemon. If the
              http or traffic option is given, the daemon will write a log for
              debug purposes into the logdir.


MISC OPTIONS
       --check YawsFile [IncDirs ....]
              Test compile a ‘.yaws’ file. Useful in Makefiles when we want to
              ensure that all .yaws files are syntactically correct

       --version
              output version information and exit


AUTHOR
       Written by Claes Wikstrom


SEE ALSO
       yaws.conf(5) erl(1)

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