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Cherokee Bundle: cherokee-worker

This is the main Cherokee program. It can be launched in several ways as shown in the section Running Cherokee. Unless specified otherwise, cherokee-worker will try to run with the configuration present in your default cherokee.conf file.

This is the full information provided by the manpage:

NAME: cherokee-worker - Cherokee Web Server internal worker
SYNOPSIS: cherokee-worker [options]
DESCRIPTION: cherokee-worker is a part of Cherokee, an extremely fast, flexible and embeddable web server. This executable is meant to be invoked only by cherokee. Executing it directly is a discouraged practice.
DEVELOPMENT: This binary implements the Cherokee Web Server functionality, although it misses a few security features implemented on the main executable, cherokee. Executing it alone could be only useful for debugging purposes.

The accepted parameters are those of the cherokee binary.

To illustrate the usefulness of such options take the following example:

$ cherokee-worker -p 8080 -r `pwd`

Since both absolute and relative paths are accepted, it is equivalent to:

$ cherokee-worker -p 8080 -r .

This would allow any non-privileged user to statically share the contents of the current directory. It's a great way to share files in a local network whenever you are in a hurry. Remember that in Unix systems only processes launched by the superuser have privileges to be hooked to the lower 1024 ports of the system.