Cherokee (web server)
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| Original author(s) | Álvaro López Ortega, Cherokee Project |
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| Stable release | 1.2.103
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| Written in | C, Python and JavaScript[1] |
| Operating system | Cross-platform [2] |
| Available in | English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Catalan, Galician |
| Type | Web server |
| License | GPLv2[3] |
| Website | cherokee-project |
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,[4] high-performance[5] 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.
Independent tests have shown Cherokee to be better performing than Apache[6][7] when serving up both static and dynamic content.
Cherokee is maintained and developed by an open source community.[8] Debian provides official packages of Cherokee.[9]
Features
Web server features
- TLS and SSL [10]
- Virtual servers [11]
- URL rewriting and redirections supporting regular expressions
- Authentication via htdigest, htpasswd, LDAP, MySQL, PAM, plain, and fixed list.[12]
- Reverse HTTP proxy
- HTTP load balancing
- Traffic shaping
- Custom and Apache compatible log format.[13]
- Ability to launch web applications on demand
- Audio/video streaming
- On the fly gzip and deflate compressions
- Resilient to the 10000 simultaneous connections barrier
- Server Side Includes (SSI)
- CGI
- FastCGI
- SCGI
- uWSGI support [14]
chrootsupport- RRDtool statistics
- Database bridging and sharding (DBSlayer-like)
- Graphical configuration interface
- Point & click deployments through an application market [15]
Web applications [16]
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
- Comparison of lightweight web servers
- Comparison of web servers
- Traffic Server
- Web accelerator which discusses host-based HTTP acceleration
- Proxy server which discusses client-side proxies
- Reverse proxy which discusses origin-side proxies
References
- ^ "Cherokee - Ohloh". Ohloh.net. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
- ^ "Cherokee Downloads". Cherokee project. Retrieved 2011-03-23.
- ^ "Cherokee license".
- ^ Frommel, Oliver. "FEATHERWEIGHTS - Linux Magazine Online". Linux Magazine. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
- ^ "Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 11.04". Linux.com. 10 August 2011. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
- ^ "Cherokee vs Apache Benchmarks". Dynamic Hosting.
- ^ "Cherokee vs Apache : An alternate web server". Craig Strong.
- ^ Contributors and metrics about Cherokee Project
- ^ Debian's official packages for Cherokee webserver
- ^ "TLS/SSL Cookbook". Cherokee project. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
- ^ "Virtual Servers". Cherokee project. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
- ^ "Supported authentication mechanisms". Cherokee project. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
- ^ "Supported logging styles". Cherokee project. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
- ^ "Cherokee uWSGI support". Retrieved 23 March 2011.
- ^ "Application deployment with Cherokee Market". Retrieved 23 March 2011.
- ^ "Recipes for specific tasks". Retrieved 2010-09-16.
External links
- Project website
- Documentation
- Alvaro López Ortega. "Cherokee Web Server" (PDF) (in Spanish).