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Running Cherokee

There are several ways you can run Cherokee:

  1. Automatic start: this makes use of the mechanism offered by your OS that should have been configured when Cherokee was installed. It will run making use of the cherokee.conf present in your system.

  2. Guardian wrapper: The cherokee-guardian program comes as a standard part of the Cherokee bundle. It is a security mechanism that ensures Cherokee's recovery in case of any system failure. This is what is actually launched when Cherokee is automatically started.

  3. Command line: Cherokee supports a series of parameters to launch it from the command line. Refer to the the appropriate documentation section about cherokee to see the complete list of optional arguments.

  4. Cherokee-Admin: The administrative web interface allows you to setup and launch Cherokee. This is probably where you want to start if you have just installed the web server. Launch the cherokee-admin process and follow the Walktrhough section of the documentation.