Cherokee
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, Galician
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