Cherokee Project: distro: Documentation

Getting started
Cherokee basics

Why Cherokee?: Feature overview.
Requirements: Hardware and software requirements.
Download: Where and how to download Cherokee.
Installation: Installation instructions.

Upgrading Cherokee: Upgrading from a previous release?
Running Cherokee: Basic steps to run Cherokee.

Configuration
Set up process explained

Walkthrough: Overview and walkthrough.
Home: Main section.
Market: Entry point to the Cherokee Market
Status: Server status information.
General: General settings.
Virtual servers: Server definition.

Information Sources: Defining information sources.
Advanced: Advanced tweaking. Not for the faint of heart.
Wizards: Configuration assistants for many known scenarios.

Cookbook
Recipes for specific tasks

Authentication: How to set up authenticated resources.
Cross compilation: How to cross compile Cherokee.
DBSlayer: How to set up DBSlayer MySQL balancing.
Embedding Cherokee: Cherokee on embedded devices.
Maintenance: Seamlessly switching to maintenance mode.
Managing logs: Seamless log rotation.
Optimizing Cherokee: Recommendations and tweaks.
Redirections: Common redirection examples.
SSL/TLS, certs: Secure connection tips.
HTTPS accelerator: SSL Offloading with Cherokee.
Streaming: How to stream Audio and Video with Cherokee.
PHP: How to run PHP apps with Cherokee.
Ruby on Rails: How to run Ruby on Rails apps with Cherokee.
Django: How to run Django apps with Cherokee.
ColdFusion: How to run ColdFusion apps with Cherokee.
Drupal: How to run Drupal on Cherokee.
Wordpress: How to run Wordpress on Cherokee.
Alfresco: How to run Alfresco on Cherokee.
ASP.NET: How to run ASP.NET apps with Mono and Cherokee.
GlassFish: How to run Java apps with Cherokee.
Joomla: How to run Joomla on Cherokee.
Kumbia: How to run Kumbia apps with Cherokee.
Liferay: How to run Liferay on Cherokee.
Mailman: How to run Mailman on Cherokee.
Moodle: How to run Moodle on Cherokee.
Nagios: How to run Nagios with Cheroke.
phpBB: How to run phpBB on Cherokee.
phpMyAdmin: How to run phpMyAdmin on Cherokee.
SugarCRM: How to run SugarCRM on Cherokee.
Concrete5: How to run Concrete5 on Cherokee.
Symfony: How to run Symfony apps with Cherokee.
Trac: How to run Trac on Cherokee.
Zend: How to run Zend apps with Cherokee.
uWSGI: Setting up Cherokee for uWSGI.
HTTP to HTTPS: How to redirect all traffic from HTTP to HTTPS.
Restricting traffic by IP: How to restrict traffic based on incoming IP.
Domain matching: Matching domains and subdomains with Cherokee.

Modules
Information about the standard modules

Handlers: Connection handling modules.

Validators: Authentication mechanisms.

Encoders: Compression and filtering.

Loggers: Logging mechanisms.

Balancers: Load balancing strategies.

Other information
Miscellaneous

FAQ: List of Frequently Asked Questions.
Front-line Cache: Specifics of the Caching subsystem.
System Tuning: Tweaking the OS for maximum performance.
Cherokee Goodies: Interesting Cherokee features.
Usage graphs: Information on the several graphs available.
Signals: Signals supported by Cherokee.
Community: More information sources.
Common errors: Some typical production errors and their cause.
Man pages: Details about each program bundled with Cherokee

Development info
Things of interest to developers

Quickstart: Where to start?.
Debugging: Resources available to debug Cherokee.
cherokee.conf: Internal configuration specs.
Quality Assurance: Some info about QA in Cherokee.
CTK: Dive into the Cherokee Toolkit

Cherokee's Distribution
Web Apps distribution on Cherokee

Introduction to Development: How to build a package.

Documentation

Index → Cherokee’s Distribution