<!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_basics_html_getting_started_a"><a href="index.html">Index</a> → <a href="basics.html">Getting started</a></h2> <div class="sectionbody"> </div> <h2 id="_running_cherokee">Running Cherokee</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"><p>There are several ways you can run Cherokee:</p></div> <div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic"> <li> <p> Automatic start: this makes use of the mechanism offered by your OS that should have been configured when Cherokee was installed. It will run making use of the <a href="dev_cherokee.conf.html"><tt>cherokee.conf</tt></a> present in your system. </p> </li> <li> <p> Guardian wrapper: The <a href="other_bundle_cherokee.html">cherokee</a> program comes as a standard part of the Cherokee bundle. It is a security mechanism that ensures Cherokee’s recovery in case of any system failure and wraps the calls to <tt>cherokee-worker</tt>. This is what is actually launched when Cherokee is automatically started. </p> </li> <li> <p> Stand alone instance: Cherokee supports a series of parameters to launch it from the command line. Refer to the the appropriate documentation section about <a href="other_bundle_cherokee-worker.html"><tt>cherokee-worker</tt></a> to see the complete list of optional arguments. </p> </li> <li> <p> Cherokee-Admin: The administration web interface allows you to configure and launch Cherokee. This is probably where you want to start if you have just installed the web server. Launch the <a href="other_bundle_cherokee-admin.html"><tt>cherokee-admin</tt></a> process and follow the <a href="config_walkthrough.html">Quickstart</a> section of the documentation. </p> </li> </ol></div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> </div> </div> </body> </html>