Cherokee webserver

I would not recommend using any web server outside of Apache, and if you have to deal with IIS, there are enough people using it to easily help.

At least get it working and have some ideas on what *should* be going on in a standard (and widely used web server) before using a web server most people do not use.

First off, any application which has to be fudged, hacked, forced, or configured just to get it working, is not going to be portable in the end. Future updates, upgrades, and add-ons might very well continuously restart the process.

Second off, You are spending weeks getting this "setup" working and having little to show for your time, except frustration.

Lastly, I guess my position comes from two decades of working with computers and the massive amount of investment I have made, that many will not achieve in their lifetimes. I learned a simple thing: computers are to be used -- not constantly tinkered with.

I posted an open letter to Fedora Core about this same topic: using the software instead of spending hours figuring it out and then telling others how to do it, only to have to repeat the cycle upon the next release.

The best part of Revo is the ability to build without having to constantly revisit and redefine the foundation.

You want cheap hosting: use hostgator. You will be up in running within minutes and actually being productive.

Remind me of this topic in January 2011 and I may be able to take time and install Cherokee and get it figured out, as of right now -- I have work to get to....

Quote from: wshawn at Sep 10, 2010, 08:49 AM

I would not recommend using any web server outside of Apache, and if you have to deal with IIS, there are enough people using it to easily help.

Thanks. I’ve tried with Lighty (besides Cherokee) since it is officially supported..

First off, any application which has to be fudged, hacked, forced, or configured just to get it working, is not going to be portable in the end. Future updates, upgrades, and add-ons might very well continuously restart the process.

In this case OpenGeek provided some workarounds.

Second off, You are spending weeks getting this "setup" working and having little to show for your time, except frustration.

Lastly, I guess my position comes from two decades of working with computers and the massive amount of investment I have made, that many will not achieve in their lifetimes. I learned a simple thing: computers are to be used -- not constantly tinkered with.

Heh, you’re coming from US and probably do not know what does it mean to use computer programs where even your native alphabet is not supported. I know what does it mean and have long history of dealing or let’s say ’tinkering’ with computers.

Lastly, I’m an open-source supporter and want to contribute that open-source projects improve even if it means to have (sometimes) more problems than expected and/or desired.

You want cheap hosting: use hostgator. You will be up in running within minutes and actually being productive.

I’ve followed your advice and it took 5 tehnicians & 2 days to resolve my problem with SSH access - I was not able to login to the server via openssh linux client, although it worked with a putty and, after uploading my public key to the server via cpanel, I was finally able to login, but still, support does not have a clue what’s was/is the problem that I was not offered passwd for authorization.

Remind me of this topic in January 2011 and I may be able to take time and install Cherokee and get it figured out, as of right now -- I have work to get to....

In the meantime, as you can see from the above-referenced URL, we found a workaround hoping to be adressed properly in the future and MODx runs with Cherokee and we even have SEO-friendly URLs.