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
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Prints Cherokee's version and terminates execution
- -t, --test
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Perform a sanity check on the configuration file. The server will not run.
- -d, --detach
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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
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TCP port number to which the server will listen.
- -r, --documentroot=PATH
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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
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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 [email protected] with the line:
subscribe cherokee
in the body of the message. The submission address is [email protected].
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 <[email protected]>.