Cherokee(1)

NAME

cherokee - Cherokee Web Server

cherokee [options]

cherokee is an extremely fast, flexible and embeddable web server.

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.

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

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.