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<h2 id="_handler_static_content">Handler: Static Content</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>The <strong>file</strong> handler serves files from its document root. No more, no
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<h3 id="parameters">Parameters</h3><div style="clear:left"></div>
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<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt>iocache</tt></p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table">Boolean</p></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table">Optional. Default: <tt>Enabled</tt>.</p></td>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>By default it will use an internal I/O cache to improve the server
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If you don’t want to use it with a directory just unset it using this
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<div class="paragraph"><p>It is a good idea to disable to I/O cache if the content of the
directory changes often.</p></div>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>Lets imagine your virtual server DocumentRoot points to /var/www.</p></div>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>This is a simple example that will make Cherokee able of serving each
CSS file under /var/www or any subdirectory with the IO/cache setting
enabled. This would only not apply if a <tt>final</tt> rule with higher
priority specified otherwise.</p></div>
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