Cherokee (web server)

Short description: Open source web server software application

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Cherokee Web Server

Original author(s)| Álvaro López Ortega, Cherokee Project
Written in| C, Python and JavaScript[1]
Operating system| Cross-platform[2]
Available in| English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Catalan, Galician
Type| Web server
License| GPLv2[3]
Website| {{{1}}}

Cherokee is an open-source cross-platform web server that runs on Linux, BSD variants, Solaris, OS X, and Windows. It is a lightweight,[4] high-performance[5] web server/reverse proxy licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to be fast and fully functional yet still light. Major features of Cherokee include a graphical administration interface named cherokee-admin, and a modular light-weight design.

Cherokee is maintained and developed by an open source community.[6]

## Contents

* 1 Features
* 1.1 Web server features
* 1.2 Web applications
* 2 Devices running Cherokee
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Features

### Web server features

* TLS and SSL[7]
* Virtual servers[8]
* URL rewriting and redirections supporting regular expressions
* Authentication via htdigest, htpasswd, LDAP, MySQL, PAM, plain, and fixed list.[9]
* Reverse HTTP proxy
* HTTP load balancing
* Traffic shaping
* Custom and Apache compatible log format.[10]
* Ability to launch web applications on demand
* Audio/video streaming
* On the fly gzip and deflate compressions
* Resilient to the 10000 simultaneous connections barrier
* Server Side Includes (SSI)
* CGI
* FastCGI
* SCGI
* uWSGI support [11]
* `chroot` support
* RRDtool statistics
* Database bridging and sharding (DBSlayer-like)
* Graphical configuration interface
* Point & click deployments through an application market [12]

### Web applications

Configuration wizards are provided to automatically configure the web server to perform specific tasks, or run frameworks and applications. These provide support for: PHP through FastCGI, Ruby on Rails, ColdFusion, GlassFish, Django, Alfresco, GNU Mailman, .NET with Mono, rTorrent, Symfony, and Zend Engine, plus generic Video Streaming and uWSGI.[13]

## Devices running Cherokee

During the last few years Cherokee has been adopted by numerous electronic device makes and IoT technology manufacturers. Some examples include GoPro action cameras and drones,[14] Xiaomi action cameras, Digi International's Internet of things kits,[15] ATN Corporation's high-end rifle scopes,[16] Defender's security cameras,[17] etc. Since Cherokee is Open Source Software and does not require manufacturers to license the code, there is no way to know how many companies are embedding Cherokee in their products.

## See also

* Comparison of web servers
* Traffic Server
* Web accelerator which discusses host-based HTTP acceleration
* Proxy server which discusses client-side proxies
* Reverse proxy which discusses origin-side proxies

## References

1. ↑ "Cherokee - Ohloh". Ohloh.net. http://www.ohloh.net/p/cherokee/analyses/latest. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
2. ↑ "Cherokee Downloads". Cherokee project. http://www.cherokee-project.com/downloads.html. Retrieved 2011-03-23.
3. ↑ "Cherokee license". Archived from the original on 2012-07-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20120723070122/http://www.cherokee-project.com/license.html.
4. ↑ Frommel, Oliver. "FEATHERWEIGHTS - Linux Magazine Online". Linux Magazine. http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2007/82/FEATHERWEIGHTS/(kategorie)/0. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
5. ↑ "Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 11.04". Linux.com. 10 August 2011. http://www.linux.com/distronews/481573-installing-cherokee-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-ubuntu-1104. Retrieved 26 August 2011. [yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
6. ↑ Contributors and metrics about Cherokee Project
7. ↑ "TLS/SSL Cookbook". Cherokee project. http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/cookbook_ssl.html. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
8. ↑ "Virtual Servers". Cherokee project. http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/config_virtual_servers.html. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
9. ↑ "Supported authentication mechanisms". Cherokee project. http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/cookbook_authentication.html. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
10. ↑ "Supported logging styles". Cherokee project. http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/modules_loggers.html. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
11. ↑ "Cherokee uWSGI support". http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/RunOnCherokee. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
12. ↑ "Application deployment with Cherokee Market". Archived from the original on 26 February 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110226102030/http://cherokee-market.com/about. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
13. ↑ "Recipes for specific tasks". http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/cookbook.html. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
14. ↑ "GoPro: Open Source Software". https://gopro.com/help/articles/block/Open-Source-Software.
15. ↑ "Digi ConnectCard i.MX28". http://www.sase.com.ar/2013/files/2013/09/SASE2013-CC-Wi_MX28.pdf.
16. ↑ "Hacking the ATN X-sight". https://www.phillips321.co.uk/2015/11/24/hacking-the-atn-x-sight-part1/.
17. ↑ "Wi-Fi камера Multicam Defender WF-10HD". https://localhoster.blogspot.com/2013/12/wi-fi-multicam-defender-wf-10hd.html.

## External links

* Documentation
* Alvaro López Ortega. "Cherokee Web Server" (in Spanish). http://www.asturlinux.org/listas/archivos/jornadas-org/att-1165/cherokee.pdf.
* Book on Cherokee

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Web server software

Comparisons

Most popular|

* Apache
* Nginx
* IIS
* IIS Express
* LiteSpeed Web Server

Other|

* Cherokee
* Hiawatha
* iPlanet
* Lighttpd
* Mongoose
* Mongrel2
* Monkey
* POCO
* Traffic Server
* Jexus
* Yaws
* Caddy
* GlassFish
* Jetty
* JOnAS
* NetWeaver
* Resin
* thttpd
* Tomcat
* WebLogic
* WebSphere
* WildFly
* Caudium
* Roxen
* Gunicorn
* Paste
* Puma
* Tornado
* Twisted
* PyGopherd
* Zope
* WEBrick
* Passenger
* AOLserver
* NaviServer
* JEUS

Retired|

* Boa
* CERN httpd
* NCSA HTTPd
* Xitami
* Zeus
* Mongrel

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