<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" /> <meta name="ROBOTS" content="ALL" /> <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" /> <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true" /> <meta name="Keywords" content="cherokee web server httpd http" /> <meta name="Description" content="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 by reading files or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS or OpenSSL), virtual hosts, authentication, cache friendly features, PHP, custom error management, and much more." /> <link href="media/css/cherokee_doc.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" /> </head> <body> <h2 id="_a_href_index_html_index_a_8594_a_href_other_html_other_information_a_8594_a_href_other_bundle_html_man_pages_a"><a href="index.html">Index</a> → <a href="other.html">Other information</a> → <a href="other_bundle.html">Man pages</a></h2> <div class="sectionbody"> </div> <h2 id="_man_pages_cherokee_admin_launcher">Man pages: cherokee-admin-launcher</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"><p>This is a launcher for the administration user interface, <a href="other_bundle_cherokee-admin.html">cherokee-admin</a>. It will check for port availability, launch <tt>cherokee-admin</tt>, and automatically open a web browser to access it. Since it is a wrapper, it accepts exactly the same parameters, but provides several extra features that makes this the most convenient way of using <tt>cherokee-admin</tt>.</p></div> <div class="paragraph"><p>This tools is intended for local use, and is the natural action to associate with a launch icon to conviniently deploy <tt>cherokee-admin</tt> from within any desktop environment. Since this is the intended use, it will automatically provide the one-time login details to the web browser, removing the need to copy and paste the user and password. Of course this step is not necessary when invoked with the <tt>--unsecure</tt> parameter, but this is not recommended except for development purposes.</p></div> <div class="paragraph"><p>Refer to the <a href="other_bundle_cherokee-admin.html">cherokee-admin documentation</a> for more in-depth explanations of all the parameters and options.</p></div> <div class="dlist"><dl> <dt class="hdlist1"> <strong>SIGNALS</strong> </dt> <dd> <p> You can send the SIGHUP signal to cherokee-admin-launcher to make it relaunch a web browser conviniently authenticated agains cherokee-admin. This is useful in case you closed the web browser and wished to access cherokee-admin again without restarting it, since manual access would require you to provide the one-time login details that you wouldn’t have. </p> </dd> </dl></div> <div class="listingblock"> <div class="title">Command on Solaris</div> <div class="content"> <pre><tt># pkill -HUP cherokee-admin-launcher</tt></pre> </div></div> <div class="listingblock"> <div class="title">Command on most Unix-like systems</div> <div class="content"> <pre><tt># killall -HUP cherokee-admin-launcher</tt></pre> </div></div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> </div> </div> </body> </html>