Cherokee is a lightweight and flexible web server that can be used to host various kinds of websites and applications. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Cherokee on OpenBSD.
Before installing Cherokee, we need to update the system packages to ensure that we have the latest security patches and bug fixes.
$ sudo pkg_add -u
Cherokee requires a few dependencies that are not included in the base OpenBSD installation. We can install them using the following command:
$ sudo pkg_add -I automake autoconf libtool pcre yajl
We need to download Cherokee from the official website. To do that, we can use the following command:
$ cd /tmp
$ ftp http://www.cherokee-project.com/download/1.0/1.0.22/cherokee-1.0.22.tar.gz
After downloading Cherokee, we need to extract its contents and build it. We can use the following commands:
$ tar -zxf cherokee-1.0.22.tar.gz
$ cd cherokee-1.0.22
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
Once Cherokee is installed, we can configure it to run as a web server. We need to edit the cherokee.conf file and add our virtual server settings.
$ sudo vi /usr/local/etc/cherokee/cherokee.conf
In the cherokee.conf file, we can add our virtual server settings under the virtual_servers section. For example:
vserver!localhost!8888!document_root = /var/www
vserver!localhost!8888!error_document_404 = /error.html
vserver!localhost!8888!type = http
vserver!localhost!8888!directory_index = index.html
Save and close the file. Then, restart Cherokee to apply the changes.
$ sudo cherokee
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Cherokee on OpenBSD. We also configured Cherokee to run as a web server with virtual server settings. Cherokee is now ready to host websites and applications on OpenBSD.
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