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A whole lot of effort has been invested in making Cherokee as painless to configure as possible. To this extent, its nifty configuration interface is shipped with a bunch of configuration assistants.

These will help you to set up Cherokee to work with several popular applications, frameworks and programming languages, and hopefully your task will be performed with just a couple of clicks.

Even if they might not apply exactly to what you are trying to accomplish, they can always be used as a template that you can fine tune afterwards.

Some of the wizards can only be applied to new virtual servers, others can only be used inside pre-existent ones. Most of them, however, are good for both scenarios.

Using them is as simple as clicking on Add New button located in the upper part of the left panel, on the vServers section of the admin. It is one of the two buttons available, and is marked with a + (plus) symbol. This panel can change from Virtual Server mode to Behavior mode, depending on it being applied to all the virtual servers or to a specific one. In the former scenario the wizards will create a new customized virtual host upon successful execution. The latter scenario will have the wizards modify an existing pre-selected virtual host.

Changing the way in which the wizards should behave is as simple as toggling the panel in and out of Virtual Servers or Behavior modes. To go to Behavior mode, select a virtual server and click on the Rule Management button of the Behavior tab. To go to Virtual Servers mode, simply click on the link for the virtual server that is displayed in the upper section of the main content area. If there is no such link, the panel is already in Virtual Server mode.

Most of the wizards are documented on their corresponding recipes in the Cookbook.

The wizards are loosely organized on several categories: CMS, platforms, tasks, misc, etc. Take a look at them. You might find something interesting in the least expected place.

These are the wizards currently implemented:

Available Wizards

  • Alfresco: open source ECM.

  • ColdFusion: ColdFusion platform.

  • Concrete5: Content management system.

  • Django: high-level Python Web framework.

  • Drupal: open source content management

  • GlassFish: open source enterprise Java EE software

  • HotLinking: prevent your files from being hot-linked.

  • Icons: adds the usual icon rules.

  • Joomla: dynamic portal engine and content management system.

  • Liferay: Enterprise Open Source Portal, CMS, Web Publishing, Collaboration, and Social Networking Software.

  • Mailman: Mailman is free software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists.

  • MediaWiki: Free wiki engine written in PHP for use in Wikipedia.

  • Mono.NET: .NET open source framework.

  • Moodle: Course Management System.

  • phpBB: Forum software.

  • phpMyAdmin: MySQL administration web interface.

  • PHP: PHP configuration.

  • Redirect: assits in configuring redirections.

  • RoR: Ruby on Rails configuration.

  • rTorrent: BitTorrent client.

  • Static: adds the usual rules to manage static contents.

  • Streaming: assists in media streaming configuration.

  • Sugar: open-source Customer Relationship Management.

  • Symfony: Symfony PHP web development framework.

  • Trac: open source, web-based project management and bug-tracking tool.

  • uWSGI: UWSGI server aimed for professional python webapps deployment and development.

  • WordPress: blog publishing application and content management system.

  • Zend: PHP web development framework.