Free lighttpd Alternatives
lighttpd is described as '(pronounced "lighty") is a web server designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments'. There are more than 25 alternatives to lighttpd for various platforms. The best alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like lighttpd are Apache HTTP Server (Free, Open Source), Caddy (Free Personal, Open Source), OpenLiteSpeed (Free, Open Source) and Abyss Webserver (Freemium).
- Cherokee is a flexible, very fast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. View 44 alternatives to Cherokee
- Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server. View 30 alternatives to Tornado Web Server
- Need to share some files with your colleagues or setup basic html website on your machine? It's very simple with Simple HTTP Server. View 25 alternatives to Simple HTTP Server
- python -m SimpleHTTPServer python3 -m http.server 8000 Documentation for python3 version: https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html View 25 alternatives to SimpleHTTPServer
- Project Goals The efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. View 8 alternatives to httpd
- Ever wanted to set up a webserver so that you could have your friends check out a new page you're working on? View 32 alternatives to SimpleServer:WWW
- 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. View 23 alternatives to webfs
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The last snapshot is from 2008. See http://dl.bytesex.org/cvs-snapshots/
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- Wt (pronounced as witty) is a C++ library for developing web applications. View 27 alternatives to WtNo screenshots yet
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- Fast and secure embedded web server. View 14 alternatives to Appweb
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The last commit to the GitHub repo was made on June 3rd, 2016.
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- WEBrick is a Ruby library providing simple HTTP web server services. View 21 alternatives to WEBrick