Lightweight web app server for PHP?

Question

I\'m doing PHP development. And coming from a Rails background, I\'m looking for a like-for-like replacement for Webrick in PHP. Is there such a light weight server? Something w

Answer 1

Almost everyone runs PHP in Apache, hardly anyone runs it with anything else. The risk of using something else is far outweighed by the benefit of using a standard application server platform.

If you did use some other web server, will PHP will continue to support it in future releases? (this is of course a problem for Apache as well, but more likely).

In what way is Apache not "Light enough" for you?