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How can I create a web application as a subdirectory of another application in Cherokee?

I have a cherokee web server. I have a virtual server running a web application, say Mediawiki, at a domain like example.com. I want to set up a different web application, say a Django application, ...
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Avoiding 502 Bad gateway in a round robin webserver process restart

I have a load balancer/reverse proxy (either nginx or cherokee, does not matter which) deployed on my server and it points to multiple background webserver processes (either gunicorn or cherrypy, does ...
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Configuring error.log on Centos 6.5 with Cherokee 1.2.101 running PHP site

I have a problem configuring error log for virtual host serving PHP web aplication on our internal network. I was hoping to get output similar to Apache's but I get output like this: {'type': ...
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What am I (a beginner) losing, by choosing Cherokee over Apache for serving dynamic content?

I am a complete beginner and am planning to setup a photo sharing site. This is the setup I am planning, basically for a start - - Cherokee (instead of Apache) for serving dynamic content ...
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Which Is a Good Starting Point For Beginner? Apache, Nginx or Cherokee?

Any of these web server software i.e., Apache, Nginx and Cherokee is suitable for my website at the moment. And I am learning sysadmin to be able to manage my server (and not for a job). For a ...
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Redirect WWW to non-WWW without using a separate virtual server in Cherokee

I'm using Cherokee webserver and I wish to redirect all requests to www.domain.com to domain.com without creating a separate virtual server to redirect requests. In the Host Match section, I've set ...
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Lightweight PHP-supporting webserver: Nginx, Cherokee, or Hiawatha?

Next month, I have to move my company's website from our current 3rd-party webhosting to our own cloud-based server. I want to use a lightweight webserver. The requirements are: PHP support HTTPS ...
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Cherokee & .HTAccess files

I believe that Cherokee does not support .htaccess files (which could be though of as a good thing in terms of speed). But, how do I do the things I used to do with .htaccess with Cherokee? Also, ...
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Password protect web directory with htpasswd on Cherokee

I have a directory on my Cherokee webserver that I am trying to password protect so that when I try to enter it from a web browser, I get a pop up demanding username and password. Needless to say I ...
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Cherokee web server on Ubuntu Lucid

I've been trying to find some decent tutorials on how to set up a recent release of Cherokee webserver on Ubuntu (or equivalent Linux distros) which outline how to setup the webserver, mysql, ...
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Why does everybody mentions Apache/NGINX/Lighttpd… but not YAWS [closed]

I see a lot of comparisons between Apache, NGINX, Lighttpd, Cherokee ... but never a comparison with the YAWS webserver written in Erlang. Maybe there is a reason for this? Or maybe YAWS deservers ...
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I'm an NGINX user, should I move to Cherokee?

I use NGINX on my server as WWW server. Now, I've seen Cherokee being used on some pages, such as university websites. Is it advisable to use it, when I have dynamic content (some of it in PHP, some ...
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CHROOTED Cherokee Web Server

Is it necessary to CHROOT the Cherokee Webserver (It runs as a user with no shell and restricted priveleges). How do I go about finding the requirements of Cherokee (for putting it in a chroot jail) ...
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How stable is Cherokee Web Server? [closed]

I just installed Cherokee and gave it a try. I'm pretty impressed with it. The configuration of the server is certainly a new approach and I must say that I generaly like it (surprisingly). Do you ...