The Best 39 Portable Webserver Alternatives

  • Apache HTTP Server icon

    Apache HTTP Server

    Apache, is a web server notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web and in 2009 became the first web server to surpass the 100 million web site milestone.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

    Configurable Modules
  • WampServer icon

    WampServer

    WampServer is a Windows web development environment. It allows you to create web applications with Apache, PHP and the MySQL database. It also comes with PHPMyAdmin and SQLite Manager to easily manage your databases.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • MAMP icon

    MAMP

    MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your computer. It comes free of charge, and is easily installed. MAMP will not compromise any existing Apache installation already running on your system.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows

  • BitNami Application Stacks icon

    BitNami Application Stacks

    BitNami Stacks make it incredibly easy to deploy your favorite open source software. BitNami Stacks include an open source application and all of the other software necessary to run it, such as Apache, MySQL, PHP or Ruby.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • AMPPS icon

    AMPPS

    AMPPS is an easy to install software stack of Apache, Mysql, PHP, Perl, Python and Softaculous auto-installer that can be used on Desktops and office servers.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • UwAmp icon

    UwAmp

    UwAmp is a Wamp Server with Apache MySQL PHP and SQLite, and it comes with an very smart interface that offers various information, configuration and commands for the server. It can handle multiple php versions and monitor cpu usage.

    Free Windows

  • EasyPHP icon

    EasyPHP

    Setup at a glance a pre-configured Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP environment on your system or on a USB key and develop or present locally your projects.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • The Uniform Server icon

    The Uniform Server

    The Uniform Server is a WAMP package that allows you to run a server on any MS Windows OS based computer. It is small and mobile to download or move around and can also be used or setup as a production/live server.

    Free Windows

  • Cherokee icon

    Cherokee

    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.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD

  • WnMp icon

    WnMp

    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...

    Free Open Source Windows Self-Hosted

    MariaDB Nginx
  • Devilbox icon

    Devilbox

    the devilbox is a highly-configurable, docker based alternative to xampp.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Docker

  • Abyss Webserver icon

    Abyss Webserver

    Abyss Web Server is a compact web server available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems. Despite its small footprint, it supports HTTP/1.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • Hiawatha icon

    Hiawatha

    Hiawatha, a secure and advanced webserver

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • Winginx icon

    Winginx

    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.

    Free Windows

  • VBServer icon

    VBServer

    Create a personal web server with simplicity, reliability, and ease using VBServer.

    Free Windows

  • Denwer icon

    Denwer

    Denwer is a collection of often-used web-servers for web-programmers. It is used to debug web-sites under Win32.

    Free Personal Windows Self-Hosted