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.
Norway
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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' and is a popular Web Server in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to lighttpd for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best lighttpd alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like lighttpd are Apache HTTP Server, Caddy, Ferron and BunkerWeb.
Alternatives list
CivetWeb is an easy to use, powerful, C/C++ embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support.
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
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
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".
Weborf is a lightweight webserver designed to rapidly share directories. Runs on POSIX systems.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
Windows Webserver for PHP and CGI Scripts. Buildin PHP 8.0.8 with all extensions, mod_rewrite and internal FTPS/WebDAV-Server and DNS-Server.
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Russia
United States
