/rclone_serve

title: "rclone serve"
description: "Serve a remote over a protocol."
versionIntroduced: v1.39
# autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/serve/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"

> **Official documentation:** [https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve/](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_serve/)

rclone serve

Serve a remote over a protocol.

Synopsis

Serve a remote over a given protocol. Requires the use of a subcommand to specify the protocol, e.g.

rclone serve http remote:

When the "--metadata" flag is enabled, the following metadata fields will be provided as headers:

• "content-disposition"
• "cache-control"
• "content-language"
• "content-encoding"

Note: The availability of these fields depends on whether the remote supports metadata.

Each subcommand has its own options which you can see in their help.

rclone serve <protocol> [opts] <remote> [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for serve

See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.

See Also

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• [rclone](/commands/rclone/) - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
• [rclone serve dlna](/commands/rclone_serve_dlna/) - Serve remote:path over DLNA
• [rclone serve docker](/commands/rclone_serve_docker/) - Serve any remote on docker's volume plugin API.
• [rclone serve ftp](/commands/rclone_serve_ftp/) - Serve remote:path over FTP.
• [rclone serve http](/commands/rclone_serve_http/) - Serve the remote over HTTP.
• [rclone serve nfs](/commands/rclone_serve_nfs/) - Serve the remote as an NFS mount
• [rclone serve restic](/commands/rclone_serve_restic/) - Serve the remote for restic's REST API.
• [rclone serve s3](/commands/rclone_serve_s3/) - Serve remote:path over s3.
• [rclone serve sftp](/commands/rclone_serve_sftp/) - Serve the remote over SFTP.
• [rclone serve webdav](/commands/rclone_serve_webdav/) - Serve remote:path over WebDAV.

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