1Cherokee(1)                 General Commands Manual                Cherokee(1)
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NAME

6       cherokee - Cherokee Web Server
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SYNOPSIS

9       cherokee [options]
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DESCRIPTION

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

15       This command will launch the Cherokee webserver. It accepts the follow‐
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18       -h, --help
19               Prints a brief help message and terminates execution
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21       -V, --version
22               Prints Cherokee's version and terminates execution
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24       -t, --test
25               Perform a sanity check on the configuration  file.  The  server
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28       -d, --detach
29               Launches  the server as a background process (default behaviour
30               is to stay attached to the controlling terminal).
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32       -C<PATH>, --config=<PATH>
33               Specifies an alternative path for the configuration file to use
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36       -p<PORT>, --port=<PORT>
37               TCP port number to which the server will listen.
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39       -r<PATH>, --documentroot=<PATH>
40               Launches  a server exposing statically the specified directory.
41               When launched with -r, the configuration file is  ignored,  and
42               the Cherokee instance runs with its default values.
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44       -i, --print-server-info
45               Print server technical information.
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47       -v, --valgrind
48               Execute the worker process under Valgrind. Used only for devel‐
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SIGNALS

52       The following signals are supported by Cherokee:
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54       SIGHUP,  Restarts the server gracefully
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56       SIGUSR1, Restarts the server closing all the opened connections
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58       SIGUSR2, Reopens the log files
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60       SIGTERM, Exits
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BUGS

63   Bug reports
64       I would appreciate hearing of any problems you have with  Cherokee.   I
65       would  also  like to hear from you if you have successfully used Chero‐
66       kee, especially if you are using it for a distribution.
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68       Report bugs to http://bugs.cherokee-project.com
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70       There is a mailing list for discussion among  Cherokee  users  and  for
71       announcements  of  new  and  test  versions. To join, send a message to
72       cherokee-admin@cherokee-project.com with the line:
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74       subscribe cherokee
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76       in the body of the message. The submission address  is  cherokee@chero‐
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SEE ALSO

80       Cherokee  can  be  run  either with this command or cherokee-worker(1).
81       This last option is discouraged if you are not developing though.  Note
82       that,   for   most   systems,   a   startup/shutdown   script  such  as
83       /etc/init.d/cherokee is provided and will probably be the  most  conve‐
84       nient invocation method.
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AUTHOR

87       Alvaro Lopez Ortega <alvaro@alobbs.com>.
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89       This manpage is maintainted by Taher Shihadeh <taher@unixwars.com>.
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93                               February 16, 2011                   Cherokee(1)
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