cherokee1

Usage

Overview

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