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Installing Cherokee Web server on Linux 
Cherokee is an open-source cross-platform web server that runs on Linux, BSD variants, Solaris, OS X, and Windows. It is a lightweight,high-performance 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. 
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Independent tests have shown Cherokee to be better performing than Apache when serving up both static and dynamic content. 
 
Cherokee is maintained and developed by an open source community 
Cherokee features 
 
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>TLS and SSL</li>
<li>Virtual servers</li>
<li>URL rewriting and redirections supporting regular expressions</li>
<li>Authentication via htdigest, htpasswd, LDAP, MySQL, PAM, plain, and fixed list.</li>
<li>Reverse HTTP proxy</li>
<li>HTTP load balancing</li>
<li>Traffic shaping</li>
<li>Custom and Apache compatible log format.</li>
<li>Server Side Includes (SSI)</li>
<li>CGI</li>
<li>FastCGI</li>
<li>SCGI</li>
<li>uWSGI support</li>
<li>chroot support</li>
<li>RRDtool statistics</li>
<li>PHP</li>
<li>Ruby on RailsColdFusion</li>
<li>GlassFish</li>
<li>Django</li>
<li>Etc... More Features</li>
</ul>
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Setup Cherokee on Ubuntu 12.04, 13.04, 13.10, 14.10</div>
First, install required package: 
<pre style="background: rgb(68, 67, 65); border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); box-sizing: border-box; clear: none !important; color: white; font-family: monospace, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; margin-top: 10px !important; overflow: auto; padding: 10px !important; width: auto !important; word-break: break-all;">#sudo apt-get install python-software-properties</pre>
Enable Cherokee  PPA (Personal Package Archive) repository: 
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# sudo apt-get update</pre>
If your system does not come with add-apt-repository, try installing software-properties-common first. 
<pre style="background: rgb(68, 67, 65); border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); box-sizing: border-box; clear: none !important; color: white; font-family: monospace, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; margin-top: 10px !important; overflow: auto; padding: 10px !important; width: auto !important; word-break: break-all;"># sudo apt-get install software-properties-common</pre>
Install cherokee web server: 
<pre style="background: rgb(68, 67, 65); border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); box-sizing: border-box; clear: none !important; color: white; font-family: monospace, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; margin-top: 10px !important; overflow: auto; padding: 10px !important; width: auto !important; word-break: break-all;"># apt-get install cheroke cherokee-admin -y</pre>
Cherokee in RHEL/CentOS 5.x/6.x and Fedora linux 
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Install cherokee web server using yum command: 
<pre style="background: rgb(68, 67, 65); border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; color: white; font-family: monospace, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 10px; width: auto; word-break: break-all;"># yum install cherokee -y</pre>
Start Cherokee Service
 
Now that Cherokee is installed, we can check whether it is running 
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To start Cherokee type following command: 
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Start Cherokee on boot:
 
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We can also verify that Cherokee is running by visiting server IP address. We should be greeted by this page. 
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Administering CherokeeCherokee is being able to manage all of its configurations through a simple to use web interface. The web management interface does not and should not be running by default. It can be started through the cherokee-admin command.
 
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Cherokee-admin will output the temporary credentials to use in the web interface. Copy the one time password generated. 
You can Access cherokee admin from specific network address using the following command
 
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