---
name: "circuits.web"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python-circuits"
version: "3.1.0+ds1-1"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/circuits.web"
---

# circuits.web(1)

Web Server and testing tool

## NAME

circuits.web - Web Server and testing tool

## SYNOPSIS

**circuits.web** \[*options*\] \[*docroot*\]

## DESCRIPTION

circuits.web is a component based, event-driven light weight and high performance HTTP/WSGI framework. circuits.web applications are stand-alone applications with a high performance, multi-process web server with great concurrent scalability with full support for WSGI and deployment with other web servers.

## OPTIONS

- **-b** *address:\[port\]*

  Bind to address:\[port\]. Default address is 0.0.0.0:8000.

- **-d**

  Enable debug mode.

- **-j**

  Use python JIT (psyco) if it is available.

- **-m** *number*

  Specify *number* of processes to start (multiprocessing).

- **-p**

  Enable execution profiling support.

- **-s** *server*

  Specify server to use.

- **-t** *type*

  Specify type of poller to use. *type* can be *epoll*, *poll* or *select*. Default *type* is *select*.

- **-v**

  Enable WSGI validation mode.

## AUTHOR

James Mills \<prologic@shortcircuit.net.au\>

This manual page was written by Daniele Tricoli \<eriol@mornie.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).