Windows Webserver Alternatives

Windows Webserver is described as 'For PHP and CGI Scripts. Buildin PHP 8.0.8 with all extensions, mod_rewrite and internal FTPS/WebDAV-Server and DNS-Server' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Windows Webserver for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best Windows Webserver alternative is XAMPP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Windows Webserver are nginx, Apache HTTP Server, Caddy and Ferron.

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  1. Serve a single directory over HTTP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2.  7 likes

    A small fast HTTP library and server that runs Rails, Camping, Nitro and Iowa apps.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    webfs is a 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.

    26 webfs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4.  5 likes

    A high performance web server. Small! (125k static Linux-x86 binary with HTTP, FTP and SMB support). Fast! (measure for yourself, please) Scalable!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. weborf icon
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    Weborf is a lightweight webserver designed to rapidly share directories. Runs on POSIX systems.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6.  5 likes

    Project Goals

    The efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography.

    • Lean: Provide a small and monolithic architecture that supports the main standards and most important features of the web. Extensibility will never be.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • BSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  7. SecureWAMP icon
     7 likes

    With SecureWAMP you can set up a complete and safe WAMP-System in a few minutes, which you can administrate completely via a GUI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. nanoweb icon
     4 likes

    Nanoweb is an HTTP server written in PHP, designed to be small, secure, and extensible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9.  4 likes

    WEBrick is a Ruby library providing simple HTTP web server services.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. MicroApache icon
     4 likes

    MicroApache - A Portable Apache Server for Windows

    "This is a microscopic and very-heavily trimmed-down version of the standard, Apache server; made available under the Apache GPL licence. It was developed initially for fun to meet a FloppyWeb Challenge to run Apache from a.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Appweb icon
     8 likes

    Embedthis Appweb is a fast, compact embedded Web server. It is unmatched in efficiency and serves pages at native speed, using an event-driven, non-blocking core to serve multiple requests using minimal resources. It has integrated caching and the ESP "C" Web framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. It's a portable server manager that you can go anywhere, anytime, in any computer and run your webapp. Quick and easy to configure, a really useful application for your portable apps kit.

    47 Portable Webserver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
     
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