MINIQUARK(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual MINIQUARK(1)

miniquarka minimal web server for retrieving files

miniquark [-d dir] [-l address] port

miniquark is a web server supporting GET/HEAD requests and is easily launched as unprivileged user to provide HTTP access a local directory.

The options are as follows:

dir
Switch to the specified directory.
address
Set the hostname or IP address to listen on. The default is ‘localhost’.

port is required, and specifies the TCP port number for incoming connections.

The following request headers are recognized

Range:
Returns 206 Partial Content and the Content-Range header is set.
If-Modified-Since:
Returns 304 Not Modified or "200 OK" based on the file timestamp.
User-Agent:
Used for log messages.

miniquark was based on https://git.suckless.org/quark and bundled with rset 1.6

FreeBSD 15.1-STABLE August 3, 2026 MINIQUARK(1)