---
name: "cern-httpd"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "cern-httpd"
version: "3.0A-3"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cern-httpd"
---

# cern-httpd(8)

HTTP server daemon (aka WWW server)

## NAME

cern-httpd - HTTP server daemon (aka WWW server)

## SYNOPSIS

**cern-httpd** *\[options\]*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **cern-httpd** command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page.  Instead, it has documentation in HTML format; see below.

**cern-httpd** is a world-wide-web server daemon. It listens for requests on a TCP/IP port  (typically 80) and returns files and other information in response.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options are included below. For a complete description, see the documentation files.

- **-r** *rulefile*

  Use  *rulefile* as the configuration files, instead of the default /etc/cern-httpd.conf

- **-p** *port*

  Listen for request on port number *port.* Without this argument (and without a port specified in the configuration file) cern-httpd assumes it has been started by inetd, and listens on stdin.

- **-l** *logfile*

  Use  *logfile* to log requests.

- **-restart**

  Send SIGHUP to an already running cern-httpd process to force it to re-read the configuration file. If the  **-r** option was used on the original run, the same option must be used for this request also.

- **-gcc\_only**

  Do only garbage collection (cache cleanup) and exit. Useful only when running cern-httpd as a proxy server.

- **-v**

  Verbose, turn on debugging messages.

- **-vv**

  Very verbose.

- **-version**

  Print version number of cern-httpd and the libwww.a used to build it.

## SEE ALSO

The program is documented fully at

*http://www.w3.org/Daemon*

available via the world-wide web.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Steve Greenland \<stevegr@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.