Apache HTTP Server Alternatives

Apache HTTP Server is described as 'Open-source HTTP server offering cross-platform support, modular architecture, secure configuration, robust content delivery, and extensive authentication features' and is a very popular Web Server in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Apache HTTP Server for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best Apache HTTP Server alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Apache HTTP Server are Caddy, Ferron, lighttpd and HFS 2 (HTTP File Server).

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  1. CivetWeb icon

    CivetWeb

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    CivetWeb is an easy to use, powerful, C/C++ embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. WPN-XM icon

    WPN-XM

     29 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. freenginx icon

    freenginx

     2 likes

    freenginx is an effort to preserve free and open development of nginx, an HTTP and reverse proxy server, a mail proxy server, and a generic TCP/UDP proxy server, originally written by Igor Sysoev.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Osgood icon

    Osgood

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    Osgood is a secure, fast, and simple platform for running JavaScript HTTP servers. It is written using Rust and V8 as an attempt to build a platform from the ground up, one which applies the Principle of Least Privilege at its very core.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  7. SecureWAMP icon

    SecureWAMP

     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
    SecureWAMP screenshot 1
     
  8. Appweb icon

    Appweb

     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
    Appweb screenshot 1
     
  9. ShimmerCat icon

    ShimmerCat

     2 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  10. TinyWeb icon

    TinyWeb

     4 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. qaws icon

    qaws

     1 like

    qaws (Quick Arm Webserver) is a tiny, open-source, zero-dependency static file server written in Zig. It serves finished websites and assets at high throughput using native event backends, worker-local caching, keep-alive, pipelining, byte ranges, ETags, sendfile, and...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • BSD
    • Termux
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  12. WnMp icon

    WnMp

     21 likes

    Windows+Nginx+MariaDB+PHP

    WnMp can serve as an up to date LAMP(Linux,Apache,MySQL,PHP) like server with more focus on Current technologies and also a great clean training Environment for Web Development and Maybe in the future it can be picked and some person develop a Web 2.0.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
    WnMp screenshot 1
     
  13. thttpd icon

    thttpd

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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
     
  14. Reproxy icon

    Reproxy

     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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