---
title: "rclone gui"
description: "Open the web based GUI."
versionIntroduced: v1.74
# autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/gui/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"
---
# rclone gui

Open the web based GUI.

## Synopsis

This command starts an embedded web GUI for rclone and opens it in
your default browser.

This starts an RC API server and a GUI server on separate localhost
ports, generates login credentials automatically unless --no-auth
is specified, and opens the browser already authenticated.

    rclone gui

By default rclone gui serves the web GUI that was embedded into the
rclone binary at build time from https://github.com/rclone/rclone-web/
You can override this by passing a path to either an unpacked GUI
directory or a dist.zip archive (e.g. one downloaded from the
rclone-web releases page):

    rclone gui ./my-dist/
    rclone gui ./dist.zip

This is useful for iterating on the GUI locally without rebuilding
rclone, or for serving a different GUI release than the one embedded.

Use --no-open-browser to skip opening the browser automatically:

    rclone gui --no-open-browser

Use --addr to bind the GUI to a specific address:

    rclone gui --addr localhost:5580

Use --user and --pass to set specific credentials:

    rclone gui --user admin --pass secret

Use --no-auth to disable authentication entirely:

    rclone gui --no-auth

For more help see [the GUI docs](/gui/).


```
rclone gui [path] [flags]
```

## Options

```
      --addr stringArray       IPaddress:Port for the GUI server (default auto-chosen localhost port)
      --api-addr stringArray   IPaddress:Port for the RC API server (default auto-chosen localhost port)
      --enable-metrics         Enable OpenMetrics/Prometheus compatible endpoint at /metrics
  -h, --help                   help for gui
      --no-auth                Don't require auth for the RC API
      --no-open-browser        Skip opening the browser automatically
      --pass string            Password for RC authentication
      --user string            User name for RC authentication
```

Options shared with other commands are described next.
See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.

### RC Options

Flags to control the Remote Control API

```text
      --rc                                 Enable the remote control server
      --rc-addr stringArray                IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default localhost:5572)
      --rc-allow-origin string             Origin which cross-domain request (CORS) can be executed from
      --rc-baseurl string                  Prefix for URLs - leave blank for root
      --rc-cert string                     TLS PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
      --rc-client-ca string                Client certificate authority to verify clients with
      --rc-enable-metrics                  Enable the Prometheus metrics path at the remote control server
      --rc-files string                    Path to local files to serve on the HTTP server
      --rc-htpasswd string                 A htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done
      --rc-job-expire-duration Duration    Expire finished async jobs older than this value (default 1m0s)
      --rc-job-expire-interval Duration    Interval to check for expired async jobs (default 10s)
      --rc-key string                      TLS PEM Private key
      --rc-max-header-bytes int            Maximum size of request header (default 4096)
      --rc-min-tls-version string          Minimum TLS version that is acceptable (default "tls1.0")
      --rc-no-auth                         Don't require auth for certain methods
      --rc-pass string                     Password for authentication
      --rc-realm string                    Realm for authentication
      --rc-salt string                     Password hashing salt (default "dlPL2MqE")
      --rc-serve                           Enable the serving of remote objects
      --rc-serve-no-modtime                Don't read the modification time (can speed things up)
      --rc-server-read-timeout Duration    Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s)
      --rc-server-write-timeout Duration   Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s)
      --rc-template string                 User-specified template
      --rc-user string                     User name for authentication
      --rc-user-from-header string         User name from a defined HTTP header
      --rc-web-fetch-url string            URL to fetch the releases for webgui (default "https://api.github.com/repos/rclone/rclone-webui-react/releases/latest")
      --rc-web-gui                         Launch WebGUI on localhost
      --rc-web-gui-force-update            Force update to latest version of web gui
      --rc-web-gui-no-open-browser         Don't open the browser automatically
      --rc-web-gui-update                  Check and update to latest version of web gui
```

## See Also

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* [rclone](/commands/rclone/)	 - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.


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