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<h2 id="_running_cherokee">Running Cherokee</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>There are several ways you can run Cherokee:</p></div>
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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