Open source minimal web server? [closed]

Answer 1

Since you're not writing it yourself, does it have to be a minimal server? Apache and related might serve your purpose. It's heavyweight, but without knowing more of your requirements that might or might not be a problem.

Answer 2

nginx is very lightweight and very scalable (e.g. see Wordpress's story for a high-profile case). POSIX-only.

Answer 3

When you run a web project from Visual Studio, you are typically running it via Cassini2. That is a downloadable project as well.

Otherwise, if you want something smaller, you can look at Indy 10 library (open source), which is a complete set of networking apis. You could probably write your own web server fairly quickly with that.

Or, NSoftware also has some networking apis. They are commercial, but well documented, and I've had good luck with their support (but it has been a while for that).

Answer 4

A couple more suggestions:

• NancyFX (look for self host)
• Kayax

Answer 5

I don't know if will fit your project but http://www.tntnet.org/ looks promising. Alternatively, you can look for a http server library which you can add your custom code to build a web server with application embedded. There are many (like libmicrohttpd), that it is not worth enumerating here without knowing your project.

Answer 6

Check out my webserver project: http://www.codeplex.com/webserver It contains a lite branch for a minimal one.