RT-SERVER(1)

💖 RT-SERVER(1) — rt-server 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for rt-server, aka the RT standalone server. it lives in the RT-SERVER(1) corner of the man page universe and it's genuinely so useful, i promise. ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

# runs prefork server listening on port 8080, requires Starlet
rt-server --port 8080

# runs prefork server listening on port 8080 at /rt
rt-server --port 8080 --webpath /rt

# runs server listening on port 8080
rt-server --server Standalone --port 8080
# or
standalone_httpd --port 8080

# runs other PSGI server on port 8080
rt-server --server Starman --port 8080

like… pick your fighter, babe. four different ways to get this server UP and RUNNING. 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the tea is: the rt-server utility uses Plack, which means you can pass through additional options that are described over in the plackup documentation at https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Plack/script/plackup 🫶

for example (and this one is a fave), if you wanna see server logs while you're developing, you can start the server like this:

sbin/rt-server --env development --access-log var/access.log

and then the log output goes to var/access.log. iconic. no cap. 📝✨

ngl the log thing is lowkey the most underrated part of this whole page. set it up. thank me later. 🎀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

okay technically the original doesn't have a SEE ALSO section but the plackup documentation is right there being referenced, so go read it if you want the full platter of options — it's giving main character energy and it has all the extra flags this page just passes through to. 👑

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie!! this page came from the wonderful world of User Contributed Perl Documentation, running on perl v5.42.3, and it was all dated 2026-07-20. slay, periodt, go start a server. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶😭🔥👑🌈⭐💀🙈🍓🧚💜