$ cherokee -p 8080 -r `pwd`
This is the main Cherokee program. It can be launched in several ways as shown in the section Running Cherokee. Unless specified otherwise, cherokee will try to run with the configuration present in your default cherokee.conf file.
This is the full information provided by the manpage:
To illustrate the usefulness of such options take the following example:
$ cherokee -p 8080 -r `pwd`
This would allow any non-privileged user to statically share the contents of the current directory. A great way to share files in a local network whenever you are in a hurry. Remember that in Unix systems only processes launched by the superuser have privileges to be hooked to the lower 1024 ports of the system.