---
name: "cherokee-admin"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "cherokee"
version: "1.0.8-5+squeeze1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cherokee-admin"
---

# cherokee-admin(1)

Runs Cherokee's administrative interface

## NAME

cherokee-admin - Runs Cherokee's administrative interface

## SYNOPSIS

**cherokee-admin** \[-d DIR\] \[-p PORT\] \[-C FILE\] \[-b\]

## DESCRIPTION

*cherokee-admin* runs the server for the administrative interface used to configure Cherokee. The interface itself will be available via your Web browser.

## OPTIONS

*cherokee-admin* accepts the following options:

- **-h, --help**

  Shows brief usage information

- **-V, --version**

  Show version and exit

- **-x, --debug**

  Print the backend errors to the terminal where it is executing. If omited, this debug information is lost.

- **-b, --bind\[=IP\]**

  By default *cherokee-admin* binds only to 127.0.0.1 (localhost), which means you can only connect to it from the same system. With this parameter you can specify the network address to listen to. If no IP is provided, it will bind to all interfaces.

- **-C, --target=PATH**

  Requests a configuration file different than the default /etc/cherokee/cherokee.conf to be used

- **-d, --appdir=DIR**

  Uses a custom admin-interface path

- **-p, --port=NUM**

  Specifies an alternative port. By default, 9090.

- **-u, --unsecure**

  Allows accessing cherokee-admin's interface without requiring the user to authenticate. This disables a security measure and is only meant to ease the development process. The usage of this parameter is strongly discouraged for regular users.

## SEE ALSO

This program is a part of the Cherokee web server, [*cherokee*(1)](/cherokee/1.md)

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Gunnar Wolf \<gwolf@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/linux system (but may be used by others). Maintainted by Taher Shihadeh \<taher@unixwars.com\>

Cherokee itself was written by Álvaro López Ortega \<alvaro@alobbs.com\>.