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Cherokee

NAME

cherokee − Cherokee Web Server

SYNOPSIS

cherokee [options]

DESCRIPTION

cherokee is an extremely fast, flexible and embeddable web server.

OPTIONS

This command will launch the Cherokee webserver. It accepts the following options:
−h, --help

Prints a brief help message and terminates execution

−V, --version

Prints Cherokee’s version and terminates execution

−t, --test

Perform a sanity check on the configuration file. The server will not run.

−d, --detach

Launches the server as a background process (default behaviour is to stay attached to the controlling terminal).

−C<PATH>, --config=<PATH>

Specifies an alternative path for the configuration file to use instead of the default cherokee.conf

−p<PORT>, --port=<PORT>

TCP port number to which the server will listen.

−r<PATH>, --documentroot=<PATH>

Launches a server exposing statically the specified directory. When launched with −r, the configuration file is ignored, and the Cherokee instance runs with its default values.

−i, --print-server-info

Print server technical information.

−v, --valgrind

Execute the worker process under Valgrind. Used only for development and troubleshooting purposes.

SIGNALS

The following signals are supported by Cherokee:
SIGHUP
, Restarts the server gracefully
SIGUSR1
, Restarts the server closing all the opened connections
SIGUSR2
, Reopens the log files
SIGTERM
, Exits

BUGS

Bug reports
I would appreciate hearing of any problems you have with Cherokee. I would also like to hear from you if you have successfully used Cherokee, especially if you are using it for a distribution.

Report bugs to http://bugs.cherokee-project.com

There is a mailing list for discussion among Cherokee users and for announcements of new and test versions. To join, send a message to cherokee-admin AT cherokee-project DOT com with the line:

subscribe cherokee

in the body of the message. The submission address is cherokee AT cherokee-project DOT com.

SEE ALSO

Cherokee can be run either with this command or cherokee-worker(1). This last option is discouraged if you are not developing though. Note that, for most systems, a startup/shutdown script such as /etc/init.d/cherokee is provided and will probably be the most convenient invocation method.

AUTHOR

Alvaro Lopez Ortega <alvaro AT alobbs DOT com>.

This manpage is maintainted by Taher Shihadeh <taher AT unixwars DOT com>.

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