Top 15 WEBrick Alternative and Similar Softwares | Mar 2024

WEBrick is a Ruby library providing simple HTTP web server services.

1. webfs

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. It is also nice to export some files the quick way by starting a HTTP server in a few seconds, without editing some config......

2. mongrel

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

3. weborf

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

4. nanoweb

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

5. Thin

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 * Event Machine, a network I/O library with extremely high scalability, performance and stability * Rack, a minimal interface between webservers......

6. Wt

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 to the web. To the developer, it offers abstraction of many web-specific implementation details, including client-server protocols (HTTP, Ajax, WebSockets), and frees the developer from tedious......

7. Abyss Webserver

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/1.1, secure SSL/TLS connections (HTTPS), on-the-fly HTTP compression, dynamic content generation through CGI/FastCGI scripts, ISAPI extensions, native ASP.NET support, eXtended Side Includes (XSSI), custom error pages,......

8. gatling

gatling A high performance web server. Small! (125k static Linux-x86 binary with HTTP, FTP and SMB support). Fast! (measure for yourself, please) Scalable!......

9. Pagekite

Pagekite Bring your localhost servers on-line.PageKite is software that gives your localhost servers names and makes them globally visible. It works with any computer and any Internet connection.It's so easy you'll never want to think about routers, IP addresses or other technicalities again. It's open source, too!......

10. nginx

nginx nginx [engine x] is a HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. It has been running for more than five years on many heavily loaded Russian sites including Rambler (RamblerMedia.com). Basic HTTP server features Serving static and index files, autoindexing; open......

11. GoAhead

GoAhead Embedthis GoAhead™ is one of the world’s most popular embedded web server deployed for over 15 years in hundreds of millions of devices by industry leaders and startups. It is compact and requires less than 150K RAM. GoAhead uses an event-driven, non-blocking core to efficiently operate with minimal resources. Coupled......

12. mongrel2

mongrel2 Mongrel2 is an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies.......

13. Appweb

Appweb Embedthis Appweb is a fast, compact embedded Web server. It is unmatched in efficiency and serves pages at native speed, using an event-driven, non-blocking core to serve multiple requests using minimal resources. It has integrated caching and the ESP "C" Web framework. Without compromising performance, it has extensive security controls......

14. SignalR

SignalR ASP.NET SignalR is a new library for ASP.NET developers that makes it incredibly simple to add real-time web functionality to your applications. What is "real-time web" functionality? It's the ability to have your server-side code push content to the connected clients as it happens, in real-time.......

15. Apache HTTP Server

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. Apache was the first viable alternative to the Netscape Communications Corporation web server, and......