Cherokee

open source web server software application

Official website

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Cherokee is a flexible, very fast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable and extensible with plug-ins. It supports on-the-fly configuration, TLS/SSL, virtual hosts, authentication, cache friendly features, PHP, custom error management, several load balancing policies, database balancing, and much more.

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Source code

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You also may need to install the libtool-bin package, depending on the distribution and architecture. Once cloned, cd into the resulting source directory and run ./autogen.sh to set up the environment and generate ./configure :: ./autogen.sh will accept any optional parameters otherwise typically passed to ./configure ; in doing so you can avoid needing to run ./configure separately. Several examples of using ./autogen.sh follow shortly in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section. After downloading (likely from and extracting, you should run ./configure , with options as appropriate. The standard options are documented in the INSTALL file. Typically, the most interesting options are: After running ./configure , issues the make command, and then make install (excuting this last command as root if the destination permissions require that). wget tar xf cherokee-latest-snapshot.tar.gz cd cherokee-latest-snapshot ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var make sudo make install The exact options passed to ./configure can vary based upon your configuration. Cherokee is released under GPL v2. Read the COPYING file for more information. ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --with-wwwroot=/Library/WebServer/Documents --with-wwwuser=www --with-wwwgroup=www --with-mysql=no --with-ffmpeg=no --with-ldap=no --enable-beta make -j8 packages/osx/build.py ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-static-module=all --enable-static --enable-shared=no --with-mysql=no --with-ffmpeg=no --with-ldap=no --enable-beta --enable-trace --enable-backtraces --enable-maintainer-mode make V=1 CFLAGS="-ggdb3 -O0" -j8 The resulting file will be created in the current directory and will be a .tar.gz archive.