Section: User Commands (1)Updated: August 04, 2008Local indexUp
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.
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:
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.