Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure web server. it supports the widespread technologies nowadays: fastcgi, scgi, php, cgi, tls and ssl encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly encoding, apache compatible log files, http load balancing, data base balancing, ssi, reverse http proxy and much more.

cherokee also provides an easy to use configuration interface that allows one to configure the server from top to bottom without having to edit a text configuration file.

this package contains the server and essential handlers.