| Cherokee Web Server | |
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| Author | Alvaro Lopez Ortega |
| Developer | Cherokee Project] |
| Latest release | 0.5.6 |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Genre | Web server |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://cherokee-project.com/ |
Cherokee HTTP Server is a cross-platform Web server. It aims to be fast and fully-functional while remaining lightweight compared to alternative servers. It is written entirely in C. It is embeddable and extensible with plugins. Released under the GNU General Public License, Cherokee is free software.
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Brief history
The Cherokee project was born in 2001 by the hand of Alvaro López Ortega. The project motivation was to build a new web server; something newer than NCSA HTTPd and not as big and heavy as Apache HTTP Server, both of which are now more than 10 years old. Currently, Cherokee is developed and maintained by an open community of developers.
Available versions
Cherokee's latest stable release 0.5.6 ("All I want for Xmas is a new Cherokee release") was released on the 13th of December, 2006. Read the official release announcement. Important fixes since the previous release are:
- Little memory leak in iocache
- Content-Range header
- Time management fixed
- Non-free docs removed
- BSD compilation fix
- A few miscellaneous fixes
New features:
- Higher performance
- Support for local paths in the configuration
- sendfile() support improved
The latest development version is 0.6.0-beta1. Read the announcement.
The most up-to-date version is always available through the SVN repository of the Cherokee project.
Features
Cherokee has several features, including CGI execution, PHP execution with PHPCGI and FastCGI. It also supports logging and authentication. Logging methods supported:
- NCSA
- W3C
- Combined
Authentication methods supported:
- plain
- htpasswd
- htdigest
- PAM
Cherokee can also handle redirections and virtual server configuration.
Configuration
Cherokee relies on several configuration files:
- advanced.conf
- cherokee.conf
- icons.conf
- mime.conf
Experimental features
- Themeable dirlist handler
- Hardware logger for Cherokee
- u-Cherokee in a remoted control car
- Cherokee webcam handler
- Graphical user application for Cherokee
Sub-projects
There are sub-projects simultaneously developed within the Cherokee project.
u-Cherokee
u-Cherokee is Cherokee's micro edition version. It is designed to fit in really small devices with hard memory and power limitations. It's not available as a separate package but requires Cherokee to be compiled in a special way.
cget
cget is a web downloader for Cherokee.
