Cherokee is an open-source Cross-platform

Cross-platform

In computing, cross-platform, or multi-platform, is an attribute conferred to computer software or computing methods and concepts that are implemented and inter-operate on multiple computer platforms...

 Web server

Web server

Web server can refer to either the hardware or the software that helps to deliver content that can be accessed through the Internet....

 that runs on Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, BSD variants, Solaris, Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

, and Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

. It is a lightweight, high-performance Web Server

Web server

Web server can refer to either the hardware or the software that helps to deliver content that can be accessed through the Internet....

/reverse proxy

Reverse proxy

In computer networks, a reverse proxy is a type of proxy server that retrieves resources on behalf of a client from one or more servers. These resources are then returned to the client as though it originated from the reverse proxy itself...

 licensed under the GNU General Public License

GNU General Public License

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. 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

Free software community

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Web server features

• TLS and SSL
  Transport Layer Security
  Transport Layer Security and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer , are cryptographic protocols that provide communication security over the Internet...
  
  
• Virtual Servers
  Virtual hosting
  Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names on a server using a single IP address. This allows one server to share its resources, such as memory and processor cycles, in order to use its resources more efficiently....
  
  
• URL rewriting and redirections supporting regular expressions
• Authentication
  Authentication
  Authentication is the act of confirming the truth of an attribute of a datum or entity...
  
   via htdigest, htpasswd, LDAP, MySQL
  MySQL
  MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
  
  , PAM
  Pluggable Authentication Modules
  Pluggable authentication modules are a mechanism to integrate multiple low-level authentication schemes into a high-level application programming interface . It allows programs that rely on authentication to be written independent of the underlying authentication scheme...
  
  , Plain, and Fixed list.
• Reverse HTTP proxy
  Reverse proxy
  In computer networks, a reverse proxy is a type of proxy server that retrieves resources on behalf of a client from one or more servers. These resources are then returned to the client as though it originated from the reverse proxy itself...
  
  
• HTTP Load balancing
  Load balancing (computing)
  Load balancing is a computer networking methodology to distribute workload across multiple computers or a computer cluster, network links, central processing units, disk drives, or other resources, to achieve optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid...
  
  
• Traffic shaping
  Traffic shaping
  Traffic shaping is the control of computer network traffic in order to optimize or guarantee performance, improve latency, and/or increase usable bandwidth for some kinds of packets by delaying other kinds of packets that meet certain criteria...
  
  
• Custom and Apache
  Apache HTTP Server
  The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to as Apache , is web server software notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. In 2009 it became the first web server software to surpass the 100 million website milestone...
  
   compatible log format.
• Ability to launch web applications
  Spawn (computing)
  Spawn in computing refers to a function that loads and executes a new child process.The current process may or may not continue to execute asynchronously...
  
   on demand
• Audio/Video
  Streaming media
  Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider.The term "presented" is used in this article in a general sense that includes audio or video playback. The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather...
  
   streaming
• On the fly gzip
  Gzip
  Gzip is any of several software applications used for file compression and decompression. The term usually refers to the GNU Project's implementation, "gzip" standing for GNU zip. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of Lempel-Ziv and Huffman coding...
  
   and deflate
  DEFLATE
  Deflate is a lossless data compression algorithm that uses a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding. It was originally defined by Phil Katz for version 2 of his PKZIP archiving tool and was later specified in RFC 1951....
  
   compressions
• Resilient to the 10000 simultaneous connections barrier
  C10k problem
  The C10k problem refers to the problem of optimising web server software to handle a large number of clients at the same time . The problem of web server optimisation has been studied because a number of factors must be considered to allow a web server to support many clients...
  
  
• Server Side Includes
  Server Side Includes
  Server Side Includes is a simple interpreted server-side scripting language used almost exclusively for the Web.The most frequent use of SSI is to include the contents of one or more files into a web page on a web server...
  
  
• CGI
  Common Gateway Interface
  The Common Gateway Interface is a standard method for web servers software to delegate the generation of web pages to executable files...
  
  
• FastCGI
  FastCGI
  FastCGI is a protocol for interfacing interactive programs with a web server. FastCGI is a variation on the earlier Common Gateway Interface ; FastCGI's main aim is to reduce the overhead associated with interfacing the web server and CGI programs, allowing a server to handle more web page...
  
  
• SCGI
  Simple Common Gateway Interface
  The Simple Common Gateway Interface is a protocol for applications to interface with HTTP servers, as an alternative to the CGI protocol...
  
  
• uWSGI support
• chroot
  Chroot
  A chroot on Unix operating systems is an operation that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children. A program that is run in such a modified environment cannot name files outside the designated directory tree. The term "chroot" may refer to the chroot...
  
  support
• RRDtool
  RRDtool
  RRDtool aims to handle time-series data like network bandwidth, temperatures, CPU load, etc...
  
   statistics
• Data base bridging and Sharding (DBSlayer-like)
• Graphical configration interface
• Point & Click deployments through an application market

Web applications

Configuration wizards

Wizard (software)

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 are provided to automatically configure the web server to perform specific tasks, or run frameworks and applications. These provide support for:

• PHP
  PHP
  PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
  
  
• Ruby on Rails
  Ruby on Rails
  Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:...
  
  
• ColdFusion
  ColdFusion
  In computing, ColdFusion is the name of a commercial rapid application development platform invented by Jeremy and JJ Allaire in 1995. ColdFusion was originally designed to make it easier to connect simple HTML pages to a database, by version 2 it had...
  
  
• GlassFish
  GlassFish
  GlassFish is an open source application server project started by Sun Microsystems for the Java EE platform and now sponsored by Oracle Corporation. The supported version is called Oracle GlassFish Server...
  
  
• Django

See also

• Comparison of lightweight web servers
  Comparison of lightweight web servers
  Lightweight web servers are web servers which have been designed to run with very small resource overhead because of hardware, environment, or simply for the challenge of it....
  
  
• Comparison of web servers
  Comparison of web servers
  -Overview:-Features:- Operating system support :...
  
  
• Traffic Server
  Traffic Server
  The Apache Traffic Server is a modular, high-performance reverse proxy and forward proxy server, generally comparable to Nginx and Squid. It was created by Inktomi, and distributed as a commercial product called the Inktomi Traffic Server, before Inktomi was acquired by Yahoo!...
  
  
• Web accelerator
  Web accelerator
  A web accelerator is a proxy server that reduces web site access times. They can be a self-contained hardware appliance or installable software....
  
   which discusses host-based HTTP acceleration
• Proxy server
  Proxy server
  In computer networks, a proxy server is a server that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource available from a different server...
  
   which discusses client-side proxies
• Reverse proxy
  Reverse proxy
  In computer networks, a reverse proxy is a type of proxy server that retrieves resources on behalf of a client from one or more servers. These resources are then returned to the client as though it originated from the reverse proxy itself...
  
  which discusses origin-side proxies

External links

• Documentation
• Cherokee Market
• Alvaro López Ortega, Cherokee Web Server (Spanish)