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<h3 class="section">4.2 Invoking <code>haunt serve</code></h3>
<p>The <code>haunt serve</code> command allows one to quickly view a local
preview of the generated website before publishing the finished
product to a remote web server. When <code>haunt serve</code> runs, a
local HTTP server is spawned. Visit the server using a web browser to
inspect the results of the build. By default, the web server listens
on port 8080, so the URL to visit would be
<a href="http://localhost:8080">http://localhost:8080</a>.
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<p>While developing, it is common to rebuild the site frequently to view
the results of incremental changes. Rather than manually running
<code>haunt build</code> (<a href="Invoking-haunt-build.html#Invoking-haunt-build">Invoking haunt build</a>) each time changes
are made, the <code>--watch</code> flag can be used to automatically rebuild
the site when a source file changes on disk.
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<dt><code>--config=<var>configuration-file</var></code></dt>
<dt><code>-c <var>configuration-file</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>Load the Haunt site declaration from <var>configuration-file</var>.
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<dt><code>--port=<var>port</var></code></dt>
<dt><code>-p <var>port</var></code></dt>
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<p>Listen for HTTP requests on <var>port</var>.
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<dt><code>--watch</code></dt>
<dt><code>-w</code></dt>
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<p>Automatically rebuild the site when source files change.
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