Cherokee is an innovative, feature rich, flexible and yet easy to configure, lightweight open source web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library.
Cherokee is an extremely fast, flexible and embeddable web server.
Cherokee is very light, completely modular and it can be tailored to your specific needs. It is multi-platform, offering native performance for Linux, Unix, and Windows operating systems.
Features include:
- Cherokee-Admin, a powerful Web interface.
- Low memory footprint.
- TLS and SSL.
- Virtual servers.
- URL rewriting and redirections supporting regular expressions.
- Authentication via htdigest, htpasswd, LDAP, MySQL, PAM, plain, and fixed list
- Reverse HTTP proxy – dispatches in-bound network traffic to a set of servers, and presents a single interface to the requesters.
- HTTP load balancing.
- Traffic shaping.
- Built-in support for efficient caching mechanisms.
- Custom and Apache compatible log format.
- Ability to launch web applications on demand.
- Audio/video streaming:
- Automatic Traffic Shaping.
- Seeking support.
- On the fly gzip and deflate compressions.
- Resilient to the 10,000 simultaneous connections barrier.
- Server Side Includes (SSI).
- CGI.
- FastCGI.
- SCGI.
- uWSGI support.
- LDAP.
- chroot support.
- RRDtool statistics.
- Database bridging and sharding (DBSlayer-like, DBSlayer is a database abstraction and pooling layer designed to be simple to use).
- Graphical configuration interface.
- Point & click deployments through an application market.
- Deploy Web Apps.
- Cherokee-Tweak – rotate the logs with no downtime.
- Zero Downtime Updates.
- Generate temporal URLs to serve hidden files.
- X-Sendfile is a special, non-standard HTTP header that has been supported by Cherokee for a while.
- Configuration wizards.
- Slowloris resilient.
- Advanced template subsystem used for both the Advanced Virtual Hosting module and the Custom logger.
- Internationalization support: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Catalan, and Galician.
Website: cherokee-project.com
Support: Documentation
Developer: Alvaro Lopez Ortega
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Cherokee is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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