Description: Cherokee is a flexible, very fast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable and extensible with plug-ins. It supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS or OpenSSL), virtual hosts, authentication, cache friendly features, PHP, custom error management, and much more.
Keywords: cherokee web server httpd http

## Index → Other information

## Other: Signals

Cherokee-Admin is all you need to interact with Cherokee. However, should you want to tap directly into the underlying communication mechanism you would need to send the supported signals to the cherokee process.

If needed it will relay the appropriate signals to any cherokee-worker instances.

The following signals are supported by Cherokee:

Parameters | Description
--- | ---
SIGHUP | Restarts the server gracefully
SIGUSR1 | Restarts the server closing all the opened connections
SIGUSR2 | Reopens the log files
SIGTERM | Exits