mini_httpd Alternatives

mini_httpd is described as '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"' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to mini_httpd for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best mini_httpd alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like mini_httpd are Apache HTTP Server, Caddy, Ferron and copyparty.

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  1. 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.

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    • Windows
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  2. Mongoose icon
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    Mongoose is easy to use web server. It also can be used as embedded web server library to provide web interface to applications.

    33 Mongoose alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Miniserve icon
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    🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  4. LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) is a high-performance Apache drop-in replacement. LSWS is the 4th most popular web server on the internet and the #1 commercial web server. Upgrading your web server to LiteSpeed Web Server will improve your performance and lower operating...

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Linux
     
  5. Cherokee icon
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    Cherokee is a flexible, very fast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable and extensible with plug-ins. It supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS...

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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  6. Wt icon
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    Wt (pronounced as witty) is a C++ library for developing web applications.

    The API is widget-centric and uses well-tested patterns of desktop GUI development tailored to the web. To the developer, it offers abstraction of many web-specific implementation details, including clien.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  7. Droopy icon
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    Say you’re chatting with a friend on MSN Messenger (perhaps with the excellent pidgin ?). She wants to send you amazing photos she took last week-end, so she uses Messenger file transfer. Unfortunately, the zip file is over 50 MB and it’s painfully slow.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  8. Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server. The framework is distinct from most mainstream web server frameworks (and certainly most Python frameworks) because it is non-blocking and reasonably fast.

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    • Mac
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  9. Serve a single directory over HTTP.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  10.  7 likes

    A small fast HTTP library and server that runs Rails, Camping, Nitro and Iowa apps.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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

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    • Linux
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    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

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
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