Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux

CivetWeb is described as 'Easy to use, powerful, C/C++ embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to CivetWeb for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best CivetWeb alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CivetWeb are Apache HTTP Server, Caddy, Ferron and Træfik Proxy.

Nginx UI is a comprehensive web-based interface designed to simplify the management and configuration of Nginx single-node and cluster nodes. It offers real-time server statistics, Nginx performance monitoring, AI-powered ChatGPT assistance, the code editor that supports LLM...

Cherokee is a flexible, very fast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable and extensible with plug-ins. It supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS...


Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows® Server is a flexible, secure and easy-to-manage Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web application hosting, IIS’s scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.



TinyWeb is an extremely small (< 100K), simple (no configuration other than through the command line) and lightweight (consumes a minimum of system resources) Web server for Windows. It supports CGI.

Mongoose is easy to use web server. It also can be used as embedded web server library to provide web interface to applications.


Abyss Web Server is a compact web server available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems.




LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) is a high-performance Apache drop-in replacement. LSWS is the 4th most popular web server on the internet and the #1 commercial web server. Upgrading your web server to LiteSpeed Web Server will improve your performance and lower operating...
Reproxy is a simple edge HTTP(s) server / reverse proxy supporting various providers (docker, static, file). One or more providers supply information about the requested server, requested url, destination URL, and health check url.
A small HTTP server with SSL, directory listings, virtual hosting and CGI. It is available in Debian's and Ubuntu's repositories as package "mini-httpd" and on Alpine Linux as package "mini_httpd".