Apache HTTP Server Alternatives

One of the most popular alternatives to Apache HTTP Server is nginx, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Caddy, Ferron, lighttpd and OpenLiteSpeed. Web Servers like Apache HTTP Server are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac and self-hosting.

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Most Apache HTTP Server alternatives are Web Servers, but you can also narrow the list to Reverse Proxy Servers or FTP Servers. Another popular filter is Mac. You can also filter for EU-based alternatives if you prefer software from the European Union.
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  1. UltiDev icon
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    UltiDev Web Server Pro (UWS), also known as UltiDev Cassini Pro, is an an advanced, redistributable web server that can be use as a regular web server to host web sites and ASP.NET applications, or packaged with your web application and installed on your customers' systems...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. thttpd icon
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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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  3.  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
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  4. 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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  5. 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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  6. mini_httpd icon
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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  7.  4 likes

    Weborf is a lightweight webserver designed to rapidly share directories. Runs on POSIX systems.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  8. Tntnet icon
     1 like

    Fast web server for high performance C++ web applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  9. WinNMP icon
     24 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. HFS is a web file server to run on your computer. Share folders or even a single file thanks to the virtual file system. HFS is the best way via web to access or share files from your disk. You be the server, share files fresh from your disk, with unlimited space and bandwidth.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  11.  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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  12.  6 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    Good alternative?
     
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