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Rule Types

There are many types of rules available on Cherokee, and each one allows you to define specific ways of matching HTTP requests. Further more, the behavior can be combined by defining complex rules that apply boolean operations to the basic rule types, so the possibilities are endless. Some times a specific behavior can be achieved following completely different paths: for instance, you can match the requests for a specific file type either by using the Extensions rule type or the Regular Expressions type. Be advised that some rule types are inherently more efficient than others, so you should stick to the simplest and fastest approach.

This is the list of available rule types: