Herd is a blazing fast, native Laravel and PHP development environment for macOS. It provides everything that you need to get started with Laravel development. It ships with PHP, nginx, dnsmasq and Node.js.




Websites is described as 'Simple, lightweight and secure web server with a convenient and simple interface. Automatic certificate renewal through Let’s encrypt' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Websites for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted and PHP apps. The best Websites alternative is XAMPP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Websites are Laragon, WampServer, BitNami Application Stacks and MAMP.
Herd is a blazing fast, native Laravel and PHP development environment for macOS. It provides everything that you need to get started with Laravel development. It ships with PHP, nginx, dnsmasq and Node.js.





Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, a web server, or any other server software on your local machine.
Abyss Web Server is a compact web server available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems.




Nginx MariaDB Redis Php development stack for Windows, with Composer, Adminer, LetsEncrypt certificates, WinSCP, multiple PHP versions, projects and virtual servers.




Faster local development for Drupal, WordPress, and beyond. Kalabox is the easiest way to develop websites and get them live. Get rid of the drudgery and have more fun!
Kalabox is now discontinued. The successor is Lando.






Open Server Panel is a powerful alternative to WAMP stacks like Xampp, Wampserver, Herd, EasyPHP, Vertrigo, and similar solutions. This application runs on the Windows operating system, supports Apache and Nginx as web servers, and provides the ability to run various versions of...

Fenix is a desktop web server for developers. A simple and visual static web server with collaboration features.




WPN-XM - is a free and open-source web server solution stack for professional PHP development on the Windows platform.




Lando is a free, open source, cross-platform, local development environment and DevOps tool built on Docker container technology and developed by Tandem.

USBWebserver is a bundled package of Apache, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin Mini Relay and software that allows a Web server from a USB stick to run.

