Cherokee 0.98 documentation

Getting started: Cherokee basics

  1. Why Cherokee?: Feature overview.

  2. Requirements: Hardware and software requirements.

  3. Download: Where and how to download Cherokee.

  4. Installation: Installation instructions.

    • Unix: Installation on Unix/Linux platforms.

    • Windows: Installation on Windows platform.

    • From SVN: Installation of the development release.

  5. Upgrading Cherokee: Upgrading from a previous release?

  6. Running Cherokee: Basic steps to run Cherokee.

Cherokee Bundle: Details about each program bundled with Cherokee

  1. cherokee: Main web server invoker.

  2. cherokee-admin: The configuration UI.

  3. cherokee-config: Information retriever.

  4. cherokee-tweak: Cherokee Swiss army knife

  5. cherokee-worker: Web server stand alone program.

  6. cget: Web retriever.

Configuration: Set up process explained

  1. Quickstart: Overview and walkthrough.

  2. Status: Server status information.

  3. General: General settings.

  4. Virtual servers: Server definition.

  5. Information Sources: Defining information sources.

  6. Icons: Icon managment.

  7. Mime Types: Setting up the MIME types.

  8. Advanced: Advanced tweaking. Not for the faint of heart.

Cookbook: Recipes for specific tasks

  1. Authentication: How to set up authenticated resources.

  2. Cross compilation: How to cross compile Cherokee.

  3. DBSlayer: How to set up DBSlayer MySQL balancing.

  4. Embedding Cherokee: Cherokee on embedded devices.

  5. Maintenance: Seamlessly switching to maintenance mode.

  6. Managing logs: Seamless log rotation.

  7. Optimizing Cherokee: Recommendations and tweaks.

  8. Redirections: Common redirection examples.

  9. SSL/TLS, certs: Secure connection tips.

  10. Alfresco: How to run Alfresco on Cherokee.

  11. ASP.NET: How to run ASP.NET apps with Mono and Cherokee.

  12. Django: How to run Django apps with Cherokee.

  13. Drupal: How to run Drupal on Cherokee.

  14. GlassFish: How to run Java apps with Cherokee.

  15. Joomla: How to run Joomla on Cherokee.

  16. Kumbia: How to run Kumbia apps with Cherokee.

  17. Liferay: How to run Liferay on Cherokee.

  18. Mailman: How to run Mailman on Cherokee.

  19. Moodle: How to run Moodle on Cherokee.

  20. Nagios: How to run Nagios with Cheroke.

  21. PHP: How to run PHP apps with Cherokee.

  22. phpBB: How to run phpBB on Cherokee.

  23. phpMyAdmin: How to run phpMyAdmin on Cherokee.

  24. Ruby on Rails: How to run Ruby on Rails apps with Cherokee.

  25. SugarCRM: How to run SugarCRM on Cherokee.

  26. Symfony: How to run Symfony apps with Cherokee.

  27. Trac: How to run Trac on Cherokee.

  28. Wordpress: How to run Wordpress on Cherokee.

  29. Zend: How to run Zend apps with Cherokee.

Modules: Information about the standard modules

  1. Handlers: Connection handling modules.

  2. Validators: Authentication mechanisms.

    • Plain: Plain file mechanism.

    • htpasswd: htpasswd mechanism.

    • htdigest: htdigest mechanism.

    • LDAP: Lightweight Directory Acces Protocol mechanism.

    • MySQL: Database mechanism.

    • PAM: Pluggable Authentication Module mechanism.

    • Fixed list: Fixed authentication list.

  3. Encoders: Compression and filtering.

    • gzip: compress using gzip algorithm.

    • deflate: compress using deflate algorithm.

  4. Loggers: Logging mechanisms.

  5. Balancers: Load balancing strategies.

Other information: Miscellaneus

  1. FAQ: List of Frequently Asked Questions.

  2. Cherokee Goodies: Interesting Cherokee features.

  3. Signals: Signals supported by Cherokee.

  4. Community: More information sources.

Development info: Things of interest to developers

  1. Debugging: Resources available to debug Cherokee.

  2. cherokee.conf: Internal configuration specs.

  3. Open issues: Current development issues (proxy, wizards, extra ruletypes…)

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