The Best 21 WEBrick 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

  • lighttpd

    lighttpd (pronounced "lighty") is a web server designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • 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

  • Hiawatha

    Hiawatha, a secure and advanced webserver

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • Tornado Web Server

    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.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • SimpleHTTPServer

    python -m SimpleHTTPServer python3 -m http.server 8000 Documentation for python3 version: https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • mongrel

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

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • webfs

    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.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD Self-Hosted

  • VBServer

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

    Free Windows

  • nanoweb

    Nanoweb is an HTTP server written in PHP, designed to be small, secure, and extensible.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • weborf

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

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • Tinyweb

    TinyWeb is an extremely small (executable file size is 53K), simple (no configuration other than through the command line) and fast (consumes a minimum of system...

    Free Windows

  • LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS)

    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....

    Commercial Linux

  • SimpleServer:WWW

    Ever wanted to set up a webserver so that you could have your friends check out a new page you're working on? Or maybe you'd just like to play around with HTML...

    Free Windows Self-Hosted

  • Wt

    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...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Tntnet

    Fast web server for high performance C++ web applications

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Thin

    Thin is a Ruby web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby libraries in web history: * the Mongrel parser, the root of Mongrel speed and security *...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • Simple HTTP Server

    Need to share some files with your colleagues or setup basic html website on your machine? It's very simple with Simple HTTP Server. Just click 'Start...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X