Commands
Ferron comes with several additional command-line tools.
Usage of commands
ferron
A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
Usage: ferron [OPTIONS] [COMMAND]
Commands:
serve Utility command to start up a basic HTTP server
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-c, --config <CONFIG>
The path to the server configuration file [default: ./ferron.kdl]
--config-string <CONFIG_STRING>
The string containing the server configuration
--config-adapter <CONFIG_ADAPTER>
The configuration adapter to use [possible values: kdl, yaml-legacy]
--module-config
Prints the used compile-time module configuration (`ferron-build.yaml` or `ferron-build-override.yaml` in the Ferron source) and exits
-V, --version
Print version and build information
-h, --help
Print helpferron serve
Utility command to start up a basic HTTP server
Usage: ferron serve [OPTIONS]
Options:
-l, --listen-ip <LISTEN_IP> The listening IP to use [default: 127.0.0.1]
-p, --port <PORT> The port to use [default: 3000]
-r, --root <ROOT> The root directory to serve [default: .]
-c, --credential <CREDENTIAL> Basic authentication credentials for authorized users. The credential value must be in the form "${user}:${hashed_password}" where the "${hashed_password}" is from the ferron-passwd program or from any program using the password-auth generate_hash() macro (see https://docs.rs/password-auth/latest/password_auth/fn.generate_hash.html)
--disable-brute-protection Whether to disable brute-force password protection
--forward-proxy Whether to start the server as a forward proxy
--log <LOG> Where to output logs [default: stdout] [possible values: stdout, stderr, off]
--error-log <ERROR_LOG> Where to output error logs [default: stderr] [possible values: stdout, stderr, off]
-h, --help Print helpferron-passwd
A password tool for Ferron
Usage: ferron-passwd
Options:
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print versionferron-precompress
A utility that precompresses static files for Ferron
Usage: ferron-precompress [OPTIONS] <assets>...
Arguments:
<assets>... The path to the static assets (it can be a directory or a file)
Options:
-t, --threads <threads> The number of threads to use for compression [default: 64]
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print versionferron-yaml2kdl
A utility that attempts to convert Ferron 1.x YAML configuration to Ferron 2.x KDL configuration
Usage: ferron-yaml2kdl <input> <output>
Arguments:
<input> The name of an input file, containing Ferron 1.x YAML configuration
<output> The name of an output file, containing Ferron 2.x KDL configuration
Options:
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version