Cherokee (web server)

Cherokee Web Server
Original author(s) Álvaro López Ortega, Cherokee Project
Stable release 1.2.100 / October 9, 2011; 5 months ago (2011-10-09)
Written in C
Operating system Cross-platform [1]
Available in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Catalan, Galician
Type Web server
License GPL
Website cherokee-project.com/

Cherokee is an open-source Cross-platform Web server that runs on Linux, BSD variants, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. It is a lightweight[2], high-performance[3] Web Server/reverse proxy licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to be fast and fully functional yet still light. Major features of Cherokee include a graphical administration interface named cherokee-admin, and a modular light-weight design. Cherokee is maintained and developed by an Open Source Community [4]

Contents

Features

Web server features

Web applications [11]

Configuration wizards are provided to automatically configure the web server to perform specific tasks, or run frameworks and applications. These provide support for:

See also

References

  1. ^ "Cherokee Downloads". Cherokee project. http://www.cherokee-project.com/downloads.html. Retrieved 2011-03-23. 
  2. ^ Frommel, Oliver. "FEATHERWEIGHTS - Linux Magazine Online". Linux Magazine. http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2007/82/FEATHERWEIGHTS/%28kategorie%29/0. Retrieved 10 August 2011. 
  3. ^ "Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 11.04". Linux.com. 10 August 2011. http://www.linux.com/distronews/481573-installing-cherokee-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-ubuntu-1104. Retrieved 26 August 2011. 
  4. ^ Contributors and metrics about Cherokee Project
  5. ^ "TLS/SSL Cookbook". Cherokee project. http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/cookbook_ssl.html. Retrieved 2010-09-16. 
  6. ^ "Virtual Servers". Cherokee project. http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/config_virtual_servers.html. Retrieved 2010-09-16. 
  7. ^ "Supported authentication mechanisms". Cherokee project. http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/cookbook_authentication.html. Retrieved 2010-09-16. 
  8. ^ "Supported logging styles". Cherokee project. http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/modules_loggers.html. Retrieved 2010-09-16. 
  9. ^ "Cherokee uWSGI support". http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/RunOnCherokee. Retrieved 23 March 2011. 
  10. ^ "Application deployment with Cherokee Market". http://cherokee-market.com/about. Retrieved 23 March 2011. 
  11. ^ "Recipes for specific tasks". http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/cookbook.html. Retrieved 2010-09-16. 

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