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Cherokee is an open-source Web server.

Support for:

  • PHP
  • Ruby on Rails
  • ColdFusion
  • GlassFish
  • Django

More info at wikipedia and cherokee.

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Fastest web server for serving static content

I'm optimizing our system for some faster static content delivery, and was wondering if anyone has any proper experience with the fastest web servers out there for such a purpose. From the three main candidates I've considered, Nginx, Cherokee and…
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How stable is Cherokee Web Server?

I just installed Cherokee and gave it a try. I'm pretty impressed with it. The configuration of the server is certainly a new approach and I must say that I generaly like it (surprisingly). Do you have any experience with it? Is it reliable?
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How to port Apache rewrite rules to cherokee?

I'm pretty new to cherokee, it's great and pretty straight forward except URL Rewrites. Is there a straight forward guide to it? Let me know. Also how would I port this: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond…
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Which Is a Good Starting Point For Beginner? Apache, Nginx or Cherokee?

Any of these web server software i.e., Apache, Nginx and Cherokee is suitable for my website at the moment. And I am learning sysadmin to be able to manage my server (and not for a job). For a beginner that I am, any web server is equally new. So,…
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Use Cherokee Instead of nginx in Front of Varnish to Get HTTP 1.1 Optimizations?

We have been running nginx -> uWSGI, and now we are evaluating putting Varnish as a caching layer between nginx and uWSGI (similar to http://www.heroku.com/how/architecture). But, nginx only supports HTTP 1.0 on the back so it will have to create…
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What am I (a beginner) losing, by choosing Cherokee over Apache for serving dynamic content?

I am a complete beginner and am planning to setup a photo sharing site. This is the setup I am planning, basically for a start - - Cherokee (instead of Apache) for serving dynamic content (python-based application), and Nginx for serving static…
user88753
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Deploy multiple applications in Cherokee and distinguish them by port?

I am having an issue on deploying applications with Cherokee web server. The thing is I need to host various Django applications in the same machine and distinguish each one by ports (i.e. app1 in port 8181, app2 in port 8282... you know). It is…
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Lightweight PHP-supporting webserver: Nginx, Cherokee, or Hiawatha?

Next month, I have to move my company's website from our current 3rd-party webhosting to our own cloud-based server. I want to use a lightweight webserver. The requirements are: PHP support HTTPS support Virtual domains (we have some domains that…
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Problems Running Cherokee Web Server Admin - config_reader.c:249 - Parsing error

I'm running Cherokee web server 0.99.30 on (Ubuntu Hardy) and I have been having some issues getting the admin to run property. When I run sudo cherokee-admin -b Login: User: admin One-time Password: {password} Web Interface: …
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Cherokee force gzip compression for HTTP/1.0

I am using CloudFront with a Cherokee origin server for static files. Cherokee serves gzipped content for direct browser requests without any problem. But when CloudFront requests content, Cherokee serves it uncompressed because CloudFront is…
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Cherokee-like WebUI for nginx

Is there any nginx module that will provide Cherokee-like web administration panel? It will be very helpful to manage virtual servers and another stuff. I'm looking for it because I love nginx for this speed and simplicity but Cherokee has great…
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Can't access the cherokee admin - stuck loading

I've installed Cherokee on a CentOS 6.3 VM through EPEL repo. If I open http://localhost in elinks (sorry no gui) I can see the "Powered by Cherokee" page fine. I've then launched the cherokee-admin process and open http://localhost:9090 in…
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Redirect WWW to non-WWW without using a separate virtual server in Cherokee

I'm using Cherokee webserver and I wish to redirect all requests to www.domain.com to domain.com without creating a separate virtual server to redirect requests. In the Host Match section, I've set www.domain.com and domain.com as accepted domains…
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Cherokee port rewrite urls from .htaccess

I am tryging to port my htaccess rewrite rules to Cherokee. I already tried this. This works for me, but I can't seem to get the rule I am using working. The apache rule: RewriteRule ^dealinfo/(.*)/(.*) redirect.php?url=dealinfo/$1/$2 What it needs…
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I'm an NGINX user, should I move to Cherokee?

I use NGINX on my server as WWW server. Now, I've seen Cherokee being used on some pages, such as university websites. Is it advisable to use it, when I have dynamic content (some of it in PHP, some of it in Perl, some other in Lua, and some in…
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