MALT-WEBVIEW(1)

🌸 MALT-WEBVIEW(1) — the malt-webview girlie manual 🌸

okok so malt-webview is a thing you're gonna want to know about — it's the webserver situation for the MALT web GUI ✨ full title and all: MALT-WEBVIEW(1), from the General Commands Manual, and honestly it's giving essential. let's get into it 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

malt-webview — the webserver for the MALT web GUI, no cap 🦋

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🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

malt-webview OPTIONS {malt-profile.json}

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the MALT web GUI is literally hosted by a nodeJS script, and that script is managed by the malt-webview command, periodt. by default it opens a socket listening on localhost and port 8080, so you can reach it at http://localhost:8080 💖

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay bestie here's the full menu, every single one, don't skip:

• -n, '--no-auth' — turns off using HTTP authentification to secure the pages of the GUI. ⚠️ and I need you to hear me on this one: caution, every user connected on the machine can access the GUI, and therefore your code. so like… be careful, fr fr 😭
• -o, --override — okay so if you copy a profile file from a remote machine onto your local one, your code might be stored somewhere else (different user, different path, you know the vibe 🙈). override lets you alias some paths so it stays transparent to the GUI and you can still find your source code. the format is src_path1:dest_path1,src_path2,dest_path2. the easiest use is to override the root directory of your project 👑
• p, --port — forces it to use a different port than the default 8080 ✨
• version — displays the current version of MALT you're using 🏷️
• -H, --host — lets you provide the host to listen on, if you don't want the default one (localhost) 🌐
• -h, --help — displays a short help message summarizing the available options 🫶

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• MALT_NODEJS — you can set this to tell it which nodeJS to use, if the script cannot find it by itself 🧚

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💜 REMOTE USAGE THROUGH SSH 💜

on clusters you might be interested in launching malt-webview remotely and forwarding it through ssh so you get it on your local machine — iconic, honestly. you can achieve this port redirection with ssh options:

ssh {YOUR_HOST} -L 8080:localhost:8080

where the first 8080 is the local port and the second one is the remote one ⭐

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🔥 AVOID EXPOSING THE REMOTE PORT 🔥

when you're working remotely, you can avoid exposing the malt webview port publicly to the other users of the cluster by using a unix socket file in place of the port 🫶

# remote malt-webview -p /home/myuser/malt.sock malt-PROFILE.json # on
your workstation ssh -L 8080:/home/myuser/malt.sock user@ssh-server

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💀 VERSION 💀

this is the manpage of MALT version 1.4.1 📌

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

malt-passwd(1), malt(1) — go read those too, iykyk 💖

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okay that's the whole thing bestie, you're officially educated 🎓💅 and for the little sign-off: this iconic page came from MALT-WEBVIEW(1) and it's dated October 2025 — go slay your web GUI, periodt 🦋✨