Cherokee(1)

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@cherokee-project.com with the line:

subscribe cherokee

in the body of the message. The submission address is cherokee@cherokee-project.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@alobbs.com>.

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