Suggestions for a lightweight HTTP server with CGI support?

OpenLiteSpeed web server is a high-performance, lightweight web server with built-in caching capabilities. The web server is designed to handle thousands of ...

A tiny, fast, and friendly web server written in rust and inspired by express. It uses may to coroutines and is one of the fastest (unix) servers today.

I am looking for lightweight static content only web server on this same machine which will relive IIS form handling static content and increase performance.

lighttpd (pronounced /lighty/) is a secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web server that has been optimized for high-performance environments.

nginx (pronounced Engine-X) is a very popular lightweight alternative for serving static (and other) content. It works out of the box on most distributions.

You could try okws. OKWS is a Web server, specialized for building fast and secure Web services. It provides Web developers with a small set of ...

I've used bozohttpd and like it. It's very lightweight and, although I have only used it to serve static files, supports CGI. I believe it ...

Is there a util on Linux to set up very light weight web server ? Want to use it for only gets and would like a very fast install.

Vert.x, Akka HTTP, Jetty (the low level API, not servlet), even Tomcat and Spring Boot which embeds one of Tomcat or Jetty. Netty can be used to build a server.

bozohttpd is one of the smallest and lightest weight web servers that isn't part of a contest of sorts. It's very simple, yet it can do most of ...