Please note that if you intend to run Cherokee as www user, you'll have to manually create the log files and set the proper ownership and permissions on them. You can do it with (as root): touch /var/log/cherokee.error /var/log/cherokee.access chown -v www:www /var/log/cherokee.* chmod -v 0640 /var/log/cherokee.* If you run Cherokee as root (NOT recommended) this is not necessary. To run Cherokee at startup or using the rc script, add 'cherokee_enable="YES"' to /etc/rc.conf To start the Cherokee administrative interface, run (as root) cherokee-admin For more information on cherokee-admin(1), please refer to the official documentation and manpage.