verdaccio/website/docs/cli.md

---
id: cli
title: 'Command Line Tool'
---

The verdaccio CLI is your go start the application.

## Commands

```bash
verdaccio --listen 4000 --config ~./config.yaml
```

| Command           | Default                        | Example        | Description                          |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------ | -------------- | ------------------------------------ |
| --listen \ **-l** | 4873                           | -p 7000        | http port                            |
| --config \ **-c** | ~/.local/verdaccio/config.yaml | ~./config.yaml | the configuration file               |
| --info \ **-i**   |                                |                | prints local environment information |

## Default config file location

To locate the home directory, we rely on **\$XDG_DATA_HOME** as a first choice and Windows environment we look for [APPDATA environment variable](https://www.howtogeek.com/318177/what-is-the-appdata-folder-in-windows/).

## Config file format

Config file should be YAML, JSON or NodeJS module. YAML format is detected by parsing config file extension (yaml or yml, case insensitive).

## Default storage location

We use **\$XDG_DATA_HOME** environment variable as default to locate the storage by default which [should be the same](https://askubuntu.com/questions/538526/is-home-local-share-the-default-value-for-xdg-data-home-in-ubuntu-14-04) as \$HOME/.local/share.
If you are using a custom storage, this location is irrelevant.

## Default database file location

The default database file location is in the storage location.
Starting with version 4.0.0, the database file name will be **.verdaccio-db.json** for a new installation of Verdaccio.
When upgrading an existing Verdaccio server, the file name will remain **.sinopia-db.json**.