Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, SSI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication, on the fly encoding, Load Balancing, Apache compatible log files, Data Base Balancing, Reverse HTTP Proxy, Traffic Shaper, Video Streaming and much more.<\/p>\n
A user friendly interface called cherokee-admin is provided for a no-hassle configuration of the server. Check out the benchmarks and documentation to learn more, and give it a try to squeeze your hardware to the fullest!<\/p>\n
In this tutorial we will show you how to install Cherokee Web server in CentOS\/Fedora\/Redhat.<\/p>\n
I – Install cherokee<\/p>\n
To install and start Cherokee in Fedora\/centos or Fedora based distro, under a root terminal type : How to access the cherokee admin panel :<\/p>\n under a root terminal type: Login: Web Interface: Cherokee Web Server 0.99.17 (Jun 14 2009): Listening on port ALL:9090, TLS disabled, IPv6 disabled, using epoll, 1024 fds system limit, max. 505 connections, caching I\/O, single thread The WWW root directory is \/var\/www\/cherokee.<\/p>\n —————————————————————-<\/p>\n To install cherokee webserver from source on Centos (on a fresh install)<\/p>\n .:: install dependencies ::. .:: download cherokee package ::. .:: compiling and install cherokee ::.<\/p>\n .:: configure cherokee ::.<\/p>\n You can start cherokee web server daemon with cherokee command line. If you want start and stop the cherokee web server daemon with cherokee script, you can accomplish this under the \/etc\/ init.d\/ directory.<\/p>\n You can use this script to start and stop cherokee web server daemon. If the file is not there, vi\/m will create it.<\/p>\n # Source function library NAME=cherokee # Check that $BASE exists. # Source networking configuration. # Check that networking is up. RETVAL=0 exit $RETVAL .:: start and stop cherokee daemon ::. .:: cherokee admin daemon ::.<\/p>\n The cherokee-admin daemon used for configure and manage cherokee web server can be found using this daemon service (zeus-admin) over port 9090.<\/p>\n To start this service you can do (localhost only) : Login: Web Interface: Cherokee Web Server 0.99.15 (Jun 10 2009): Listening on port ALL:9090, TLS disabled, IPv6 disabled, using epoll, 1024 fds system limit, max. 505 connections, caching I\/O, single thread Login: Web Interface: Cherokee Web Server 0.99.15 (Jun 10 2009): Listening on port ALL:9090, TLS disabled, IPv6 disabled, using epoll, 1024 fds system limit, max. 505 connections, caching I\/O, single thread<\/p>\n password cherokee-admin changed after you start this daemon. .:: testing ::.<\/p>\n You can access cherokee interface, via your web browser on url:<\/p>\n http:\/\/yourdomain.tld<\/p>\n for the web based cherokee-admin interface for your webserver you can access on url:<\/p>\n http:\/\/yourdomain.tld:9090<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, SSI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication, on the fly encoding, Load Balancing, Apache compatible log files, Data Base Balancing, Reverse HTTP Proxy, Traffic Shaper, Video Streaming and much more. A… <\/p>\n
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\nyum install cherokee
\n<\/code>
\n
\nchkconfig cherokee on
\n<\/code>
\n
\n\/etc\/init.d\/cherokee start
\n<\/code>
\nopen browser and type: http\/\/:ip or http:\/\/localhost<\/p>\n
\n
\n# cherokee-admin -b<\/p>\n
\nUser: admin
\nOne-time Password: FEPeJXBMj4sygJ3e<\/p>\n
\nURL: http:\/\/localhost:9090\/<\/p>\n
\n<\/code>
\nOpen your browser to http:\/\/localhost:9090\/
\nwith username: admin and password FEPeJXBMj4sygJ3e<\/p>\n
\n
\nyum install wget gcc gcc-c++ libtool bind mysql-server mysql-devel php-mysql <\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\n mkdir download
\n<\/code>
\n
\ncd download
\n<\/code>
\n
\nwget http:\/\/www.cherokee-project.com\/cherokee-latest-tarball
\n<\/code>
\n
\ntar -xzvf cherokee-0.99.35.tar.gz
\n<\/code>
\n(the version will change over time so make note of the version you use when untarring and cd’ing to the directory)<\/p>\n
\n cd cherokee-0.99.35
\n<\/code>
\n
\n.\/configure --localstatedir=\/var --prefix=\/usr --sysconfdir=\/etc --with-wwwroot=\/var\/www
\n<\/code>
\n
\nmake && make install
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\n cherokee &
\n<\/code>
\nand stop this daemon with command killall cherokee
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\nkillall cherokee
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\nvi \/etc\/init.d\/cherokee
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n#!\/bin\/sh
\n#
\n# Contrib to RedHat Fedora Based Systems by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
\n# chkconfig: 2345 95 05
\n# description: Starts and stops the Cherokee ligth Web Server system
\n#<\/p>\n
\n. \/etc\/rc.d\/init.d\/functions<\/p>\n
\nBASE=\/usr\/sbin\/$NAME
\nDAEMON=\"-d\"
\nCONF=\"\/etc\/cherokee\/cherokee.conf\"
\nPIDFILE=\"\/var\/run\/$NAME.pid\"<\/p>\n
\n[ -f $BASE ] || exit 0<\/p>\n
\n. \/etc\/sysconfig\/network<\/p>\n
\n[ ${NETWORKING} = \"no\" ] && exit 0<\/p>\n
\n# See how we were called.
\ncase \"$1\" in
\nstart)
\nif [ -n \"`\/sbin\/pidof $NAME`\" ]; then
\necho -n $\"$NAME: already running\"
\necho \"\"
\nexit $RETVAL
\nfi
\necho -n \"Starting Cherokee service: \"
\n$BASE -C $CONF $DAEMON pidfile $PIDFILE
\nsleep 1
\naction \"\" \/sbin\/pidof $NAME
\nRETVAL=$?
\n[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch \/var\/lock\/subsys\/cherokee
\n;;
\nstop)
\necho -n \"Shutting down Cherokee service: \"
\nkillproc $BASE
\nRETVAL=$?
\necho
\n[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f \/var\/lock\/subsys\/cherokee
\n;;
\nrestart|reload)
\n$0 stop
\n$0 start
\nRETVAL=$?
\n;;
\nstatus)
\nstatus $BASE
\nRETVAL=$?
\n;;
\n*)
\necho \"Usage: $NAME {start|stop|restart|reload|status}\"
\nexit 1
\nesac<\/p>\n
\n<\/code>
\nsave the file using ” :wq ”
\n
\nchmod 755 \/etc\/init.d\/cherokee
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\n\/etc\/init.d\/cheroke start
\n<\/code>
\n
\n\/etc\/init.d\/cheroke stop
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\ncherokee-admin<\/p>\n
\nUser: admin
\nOne-time Password: bmS5wq3DibxdPpPP<\/p>\n
\nURL: http:\/\/127.0.0.1:9090\/<\/p>\n
\n<\/code>
\nor you can do this for all of the interfaces on your box :
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\n cherokee-admin -b<\/p>\n
\nUser: admin
\nOne-time Password: FppPAKbumPbtAwWq<\/p>\n
\nURL: http:\/\/localhost:9090\/<\/p>\n
\n<\/code><\/p>\n