Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
webfs is described as 'Simple HTTP server for mostly static content. You can use it to serve the content of a FTP server via HTTP for example. It is also nice to export some files the quick way by starting a HTTP server in a few seconds, without editing some config file first' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to webfs for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best webfs alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like webfs are Apache HTTP Server, DevBind, lighttpd and CivetWeb.
Mongrel2 is an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies.