MoWeS Portable Alternatives

MoWeS Portable has been discontinued. Similar apps include XAMPP, which is free and open source. Other options are copyparty, WampServer, HFS 2 (HTTP File Server) and MAMP. Web Servers like MoWeS Portable are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, self-hosting and Android.

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  1. Devilbox icon
     29 likes

    The devilbox is a highly-configurable, Docker based alternative to XAMPP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Docker
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  2. BAMP icon
     3 likes

    BAMP is a small macOS utility to manage your local server based on Apache + MongoDB + PHP using the Homebrew toolkit.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Good alternative?
     
  3. Nitro Server icon
     1 like

    Create web servers with everything you need and deploy them wherever you prefer.

    82 Nitro Server alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
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  4. Laravel Herd icon
     2 likes

    Herd is a blazing fast, native Laravel and PHP development environment for macOS. It provides everything that you need to get started with Laravel development. It ships with PHP, nginx, dnsmasq and Node.js.

    51 Laravel Herd alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    Good alternative?
     
  5. 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
    Good alternative?
     
  6. 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.

    51 Laravel Homestead alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PHP
    • MySQL Community Edition
    • PostgreSQL
    • Redis
    • memcached
    • Node.JS
    Good alternative?
     
  7. 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 costs

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
  8. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Good alternative?
     
  9. 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
    Good alternative?
     
  10. USBWebserver icon
     10 likes

    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.

    35 USBWebserver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
    Good alternative?
     
  11. WnMp icon
     21 likes

    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
    Good alternative?
     
  12. Winginx icon
     12 likes

    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
    Good alternative?
     
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