<!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_modules_html_modules_a_8594_a_href_modules_handlers_html_handlers_a"><a href="index.html">Index</a> → <a href="modules.html">Modules</a> → <a href="modules_handlers.html">Handlers</a></h2> <div class="sectionbody"> </div> <h2 id="_handler_static_content">Handler: Static Content</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"><p>The <strong>file</strong> handler serves files from its document root. No more, no less.</p></div> <h3 id="parameters">Parameters</h3><div style="clear:left"></div> <div class="tableblock"> <table rules="all" width="100%" frame="border" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4"> <col width="25%" /> <col width="25%" /> <col width="50%" /> <thead> <tr> <th align="left" valign="top">Parameters </th> <th align="left" valign="top">Type </th> <th align="left" valign="top">Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <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> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div class="paragraph"><p>By default it will use an internal I/O cache to improve the server performance. If you don’t want to use it with a directory just unset it using this parameter.</p></div> <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> <h3 id="examples">Examples</h3><div style="clear:left"></div> <div class="paragraph"><p>Lets imagine your virtual server DocumentRoot points to /var/www.</p></div> <div class="tableblock"> <table rules="all" width="100%" frame="border" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4"> <col width="25%" /> <col width="75%" /> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table">Handler</p></td> <td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt>Static Content</tt></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table">Document Root</p></td> <td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table">No custom Document Root will fall back to the default one defined for the virtual server.</p></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table">Use I/O cache</p></td> <td align="left" valign="top"><p class="table"><tt>Enabled</tt></p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div class="imageblock"> <div class="content"> <img src="media/images/admin_handler_file.png" alt="media/images/admin_handler_file.png" /> </div> <div class="image-title">Handler Static Content</div> </div> <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> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> </div> </div> </body> </html>