Lightweight web server for Windows?
| From: | O. Lavell | Date: | Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:00:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | Lightweight web server for Windows? | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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What do people on this list use as an ultra-lightweight web server (with
PHP capability of course) on Windows? I have an old but still well
functioning laptop that I have just given a second life by installing
Windows Fundamentals (a stripped down version of XP). This works
surprisingly well. So now I am looking for the necessary software, so I
can do some local programming.
Some requirements I can think of:
- Extremely small memory footprint and fast efficient code. This laptop
still works well but it can certainly use some help!
- Both free as in beer and free as in speech would be my preference.
- Be able to run as a "service" in XP.
- Be able to run PHP (obviously) and perhaps a few other nice server
features, like SSI and name based virtual hosts.
Any suggestions? I have not seriously used Windows for years now, so my
knowledge of that platform is not exactly up to date anymore. I am used
to dealing with Debian/Ubuntu Linux and Apache but not much else,
frankly. Apache does seem to heavy for this. My initial thought was to
install Lighttpd under Cygwin, but perhaps I would be missing out on some
great little server program that I have not yet heard about.