MoWeS Portable Alternatives

MoWeS Portable is described as 'MoWeS stands for the three letter abbreviation Modular Webserver System and makes it possible, to run a webserver based on Apache, MySQL and PHP from an USB Stick or any other writable media (harddrive, flash cards etc.) without installation under Windows (98 to Vista)' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to MoWeS Portable for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted and Docker apps. The best MoWeS Portable alternative is XAMPP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MoWeS Portable are copyparty, WampServer, HFS 2 (HTTP File Server) and MAMP.

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    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.

    48 HFS 3 (HTTP File Server) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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    Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, a web server, or any other server software on your local machine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PHP
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • PostgreSQL
    • Redis
    • memcached
    • Node.JS
     
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    BAMP is a small macOS utility to manage your local server based on Apache + MongoDB + PHP using the Homebrew toolkit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Open Server Panel is a powerful alternative to WAMP stacks like Xampp, Wampserver, Herd, EasyPHP, Vertrigo, and similar solutions. This application runs on the Windows operating system, supports Apache and Nginx as web servers, and provides the ability to run various versions of...

    31 Open Server Panel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Fenix is a desktop web server for developers. A simple and visual static web server with collaboration features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  6. USBWebserver icon
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    USBWebserver is a bundled package of Apache, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin Mini Relay and software that allows a Web server from a USB stick to run.

    34 USBWebserver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    wmWebStack is a desktop application that offers a complete local server environment for web development on Windows. It includes Apache, MySQL, and PHP, bundled together for easy management. With just one click, you can publish your local web projects to the public internet.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. WnMp icon
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    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
     
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    Winginx is a complex of local web server on Windows (Vista and higher) to develop in PHP and Node.js using databases MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, memcached.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Denwer icon
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    Denwer is a collection of often-used web-servers for web-programmers. It is used to debug web-sites under Win32. Denwer includes: friendly installer; Apache; PHP; MySQL; Perl; virtual host management system; phpMyAdmin; sendmail stub; start/stop manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    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
     
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    MicroApache - A Portable Apache Server for Windows

    "This is a microscopic and very-heavily trimmed-down version of the standard, Apache server; made available under the Apache GPL licence. It was developed initially for fun to meet a FloppyWeb Challenge to run Apache from a.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
     
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