Configure > Quick Start
In order to run the H2O standalone HTTP server, you need to write a configuration file. The minimal configuration file looks like as follows.
listen:
port: 8080
user: nobody
hosts:
"myhost.example.com":
paths:
/:
file.dir: /path/to/the/public-files
access-log: /path/to/the/access-log
error-log: /path/to/the/error-log
pid-file: /path/to/the/pid-file
The configuration instructs the server to:
- listen to port 8080
- under the privileges of
nobody - serve files under
/path/to/the/public-files - emit access logs to file:
/path/to/the/access-log - emit error logs to
/path/to/the/error-log - store the process id of the server in
/path/to/the/pid-file
Enter the command below to start the server.
% sudo h2o -m daemon -c /path/to/the/configuration-file
The command instructs the server to read the configuration file, and start in daemon mode, which dispatches a pair of master and worker processes that serves the HTTP requests.
To stop the server, send SIGTERM to the server.
% sudo kill -TERM `cat /path/to/the/pid-file`
Next Step
Now that you know how to start and stop the server, the next step is to learn the configuration directives and their structure, or see the configuration examples.