Cherokee HTTP Server
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| Cherokee Web Server | |
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| Author: | Alvaro Lopez Ortega |
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| Developer: | Cherokee Project |
| Latest release: | 0.5.5 |
| OS: | GNU/Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X. BSD |
| Use: | Web server |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | www.cherokee-project.com |
Cherokee HTTP Server is a free software cross-platform HTTP web server. It aims to be a really fast web server while at the same time supporting all the common functionality. It is written entirely in C. It is embeddable and extensible with plug-ins.
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[edit] Brief history
The Cherokee project was born in 2001 by the hand of Alvaro López Ortega, a Free Software developer. The project motivation was to build a new web server; something newer than NCSA HTTPd and not as big and heavy as Apache HTTP Server, both of which are now more than 10 years old. Currently, Cherokee is developed and maintained by an open community of developers.
[edit] Available versions
Cherokee's latest stable release 0.5.4 ("Web with only one calorie") was released on the 11th of July, 2006. Read the official release announcement. Important fixes since the previous release are:
- redir handler fix: reported by ubuntu-es.org
- Added HTTP error code 303
- Improved IOcache reference counting
- Tiny URL parsing fix
- Authentication works for root directory
- Solaris 11 compilation fixed
- The port number is checked
There is no development version of Cherokee at the moment.
The most up-to-date version is always available through the SVN repository of the Cherokee project.
[edit] Features
Cherokee has several features, including CGI execution, PHP execution with PHPCGI and FastCGI. It also supports logging and authentication.
Logging methods supported:
- NCSA
- W3C
- Combined
Authentication methods supported:
- plain
- htpasswd
- htdigest
- PAM
Cherokee can also handle redirections and virtual server configuration.
[edit] Configuration
Cherokee relies on several configuration files:
- advanced.conf
- cherokee.conf
- icons.conf
- mime.conf
[edit] Experimental features
- Themeable dirlist handler
- Hardware logger for Cherokee
- u-Cherokee in a remoted control car
- Cherokee webcam handler
- Graphical user application for Cherokee
[edit] Sub-projects
There are sub-projects simultaneously developed within the Cherokee project.
[edit] u-Cherokee
u-Cherokee is Cherokee's micro edition version. It is designed to fit in really small devices with hard memory and power limitations. It's not available as a separate package but requires Cherokee to be compiled in a special way.
[edit] cget
cget is a web downloader for Cherokee.
