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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    Thin is a Ruby web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby libraries in web history:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    MNPP: Mac + Nginx + Percona + PHP. Install a world-class PHP development environment on your Mac. Unleash the speed of the webserver everybody is talking about, Nginx. And for storage, use Percona, the most carefully maintained independent fork of the famous MySQL database, now...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    A web server for web developers. It enables HTTPS and HTTP/2 from minute five!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  4. Uvicorn icon
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    An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄.

    42 Uvicorn alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Python
     
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    Small self-contained pure-Go web server with built-in support for Lua scripting, Markdown pages, Sass/GCSS, HTTP/2, QUIC, and accessing Redis and PostgreSQL.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Lwan is a high-performance web server with a low disk and memory footprint. It can serve both static content and dynamic content generated by C or Lua code.

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    • Linux
     
  7. 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".

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. mongrel2 icon
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    Mongrel2 is an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Simple, lightweight and secure web server with a convenient and simple interface. Automatic certificate renewal through Let’s encrypt.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. A *AMP stack specifically tailored for Drupal. Affords the ability to create new sites with a few clicks, and can streamline maintenance of Drupal development environments.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  11. Gunicorn icon
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    Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It's a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resource usage, and fairly...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
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    thttpd is a simple, small, portable, fast, and secure HTTP server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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