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 The standalone Parse Server can be configured using [environment variables](#configuration).
 
-Please refer to the [configuration section](#configuration) or help;
-
-To get more help for running the parse-server standalone, you can run:
-
-`$ npm start -- --help`
-
-The standalone API server supports loading a configuration file in JSON format:
-
-`$ npm start -- path/to/your/config.json`
-
-The default port is 1337, to use a different port set the `--port` option:
-
-`$ npm start -- --port=8080 path/to/your/config.json`
-
-Please refer to the [configuration section](#configuration) or help;
-
 You can also install Parse Server globally:
 
 `$ npm install -g parse-server`