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<h2 id="_man_pages_cherokee_worker">Man pages: cherokee-worker</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>This executable is meant to be invoked only by the main
<a href="other_bundle_cherokee.html">cherokee</a> instance. Executing it directly is
a discouraged practice.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This is the full information provided by the manpage:</p></div>
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<strong>NAME</strong>
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<tt>cherokee-worker</tt> - Cherokee Web Server internal worker
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<strong>SYNOPSIS</strong>
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<tt>cherokee-worker</tt> [options]
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<strong>DESCRIPTION</strong>
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<tt>cherokee-worker</tt> is a part of Cherokee, an extremely fast, flexible and
embeddable web server. This executable is meant to be invoked only by
<tt>cherokee</tt>. Executing it directly is a discouraged practice.
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<strong>DEVELOPMENT</strong>
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This binary implements the Cherokee Web Server functionality, although
it misses a few security features implemented on the main executable,
<tt>cherokee</tt>.
Executing it alone could be only useful for debugging purposes.
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<div class="paragraph"><p>It can be launched in several ways as shown in the section
<a href="basics_running_cherokee.html">Running Cherokee</a>. Unless specified
otherwise, <tt>cherokee-worker</tt> will try to run with the configuration
present in your default <a href="dev_cherokee.conf.html">cherokee.conf</a>
file. The accepted parameters are those of the
<a href="other_bundle_cherokee.html">cherokee</a> binary.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>To illustrate the usefulness of such options take the following
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<pre><tt>$ cherokee-worker -p 8080 -r `pwd`</tt></pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>Since both absolute and relative paths are accepted, it is equivalent to:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>$ cherokee-worker -p 8080 -r .</tt></pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>This would allow any non-privileged user to statically share the
contents of the current directory. It’s a great way to share files in a
local network whenever you are in a hurry. Remember that in Unix
systems only processes launched by the superuser have privileges to
be hooked to the lower 1024 ports of the system.</p></div>
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