---
name: "cherokee"
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"
---

# cherokee(1)

Cherokee Web Server

## 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, --config=PATH**

  Specifies an alternative path for the configuration file to use instead of the default cherokee.conf

- **-p, --port=PORT**

  TCP port number to which the server will listen.

- **-r, --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**

  Print server technical information.

## 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)](/cherokee-worker/1.md).  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\>.