Index: Cherokee 0.8 documentation

  1. Why Cherokee?: Feature overview.

  2. Requirements: Hardware and software requirements.

  3. Download: Where and how to download Cherokee.

  4. Installation: Installation instructions.

    • Unix: Installation on Unix/Linux platforms.

    • Windows: Installation on Windows platform.

    • From SVN: Installation of the development release.

  5. Upgrading Cherokee: Upgrading from a previous release?

  6. Running Cherokee: Basic steps to run Cherokee.

  1. cherokee: The main program.

  2. cherokee-admin: The configuration UI.

  3. cherokee-config: Information retriever.

  4. cherokee-guardian: Web server safe invoker.

  5. cherokee-tweak: Cherokee Swiss army knife

  6. cget: Web retriever.

  1. Quickstart: Overview and walkthrough.

  2. General: General settings.

  3. Virtual servers: Server definition.

  4. Encoding: Compression settings.

  5. Icons: Icon managment.

  6. Mime Types: Setting up the MIME types.

  7. Advanced: Advanced tweaking. Not for the faint of heart.

  1. Optimizing Cherokee: Recommendations and tweaks.

  2. Cross compilation: How to cross compile Cherokee.

  3. Setting up Django: How to run Django apps with Cherokee.

  4. Setting up PHP: How to run PHP apps with Cherokee.

  5. Setting up RoR: How to run Ruby on Rails apps with Cherokee.

  6. SSL/TLS, certs: Secure connection tips.

  7. Authentication: How to set up authenticated resources.

  1. Handlers: Connection handling modules.

  2. Validators: Authentication mechanisms.

    • Plain: Plain file mechanism.

    • htpasswd: htpasswd mechanism.

    • htdigest: htdigest mechanism.

    • LDAP: Lightweight Directory Acces Protocol mechanism.

    • MySQL: Database mechanism.

    • PAM: Pluggable Authentication Module mechanism.

  3. Encoders: Compression and filters.

    • gzip: gzip compression.

    • deflate: deflate compression.

  4. Loggers: Logging mechanisms.

  5. Balancers: Load balancing strategies.

  1. Debugging: Resources available to debug Cherokee.

  2. cherokee.conf: Internal configuration specs.