Comparison of lightweight web servers

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Lightweight web servers are Web servers which have been designed to run with very small resource overhead because of hardware, environment, or simply for the challenge of it.

Many of these systems have been created as a mental exercise to determine if a modern webserver could be written to run on limited resources such as those provided in a graphing calculator, a Commodore 64, or in 64 kB (64 KiB) total of memory. Others have been written as commercial endeavors to create webservers with low overhead for embedded systems (network router configuration pages) or low memory environments.

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Server	Creator	Operating Systems	Development Language	Software license	Size (kB)	Last Stable Version	Home
0W	Maxim Zotov	Linux and FreeBSD	C	BSD-like	111		[1]
Abyss	Aprelium	Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD		Closed source	455		[2]
ebb	Ryah Dahl	Linux	Ruby	MIT	?		[3]
thin	Marc-André Cournoyer	Linux	Ruby	Ruby [4]	?		[5]
Anti-Web httpd	Doug Hoyte and others	Linux, Win32	Lisp, C, Perl	GPL	?		[6]
AppWeb	Mbedthis/ Michael O'Brien	Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, VxWorks	C++	GPL / Dual License [7]	350		[8]
Arachnida HTTP(S) server and client	Ronald Landheer-Cieslak	Windows, Linux, POSIX	C++	GPL/BSD Dual License	500		[9]
Redleafd	Alfeiks Kaänoken (MadTirra/Tirra)	Linux	C/Scheme	GPL	200		[10]
BadBlue	Working Resources Inc.	Windows	C++	Closed source	703		[11]
BarracudaDrive	Real Time Logic	Windows, Embedded Linux, Mac PowerPC		Closed source	713		[12]
Barracuda Web Server SDK	Real Time Logic	Unix, Windows, Mac, and most embedded systems	C and Lua	Closed source	100 - 500		[13]
Boa	?	Unix	C, Perl	GPL [14]	120	0.94.14rc21 (2005-02-23)	[15]
astahttpd	Rio Astamal	Linux	PHP 5.2.x	GPL	520		[16]
bozohttpd	Matthew R. Green	Unix	C	BSD	32		[17]
Cherokee	Álvaro López Ortega	Linux, Solaris, *BSD, Windows	C	GPL	686		[18]
cgttpd	Davide Libenzi	Linux	C		?		[19]
chttpd	Greg Olszewski	Linux/Win32	C		17		[20]
cheetah	Luke Reeves	Linux	C	GPLv2	17		[21]
CoreHTTP	?	Linux	C	GPL [22]	25		[23]
Dandelion	Graeme Pietersz	Linux, Windows, MacOS, Unix, any on which Tcl runs	Tcl	GPLv2, GPLv3	45		[24]
Darkhttpd	Emil Mikulic	UNIX	C	BSD	?		[25]
Devwex	Seanox Software Solutions	Any OS with Java 1.2 or higher	Java	GPLv2	31		[26] (German)
dlib C++ http server	Davis E. King	Linux, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X, BSD	C++	Boost Software License [27]	10		[28]
FlyingAnt CD Web Server	Wrensoft	Windows, Linux, Mac OS X		Closed source	50		[29]
Fnord		Linux	C	GPLv2	18		[30]
foXServe	Kdev/Davide Cantaluppi	Embedded LX 832 fox board		Apache	?		[31]
Gforth httpd	Bernd Paysan	POSIX-style OS	Forth	GPL	273 SLOC		[32]
Global-WAN (G-WAN)	TrustLeap	POSIX-style OS	C	Closed source	105	1.0 (2009-06-30)	http://www.trustleap.com/
Mathopd	Michiel Boland	POSIX-style OS	C	?	79	1.5 (2007-07-21)	[33]
GoAhead WebServer	GoAhead	VxWorks, Windows CE, Windows, Lynx, Linux, QNX, eCOS, QNX, Netware, OS X, ChorusOS, pSOS, uCOS, IRIX, HP-UX, RTEMS, iRMX/INtime	C	Dual License [34]	110		[35]
Hiawatha	Hugo Leisink	Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Windows	C	GPL [36]	200	6.13 (2009-05-07)	[37]
HTTP File Server	Massimo Melina (aka rejetto)	Windows	Delphi	GPL	500		[38]
HTTPi	Cameron Kaiser	Unix	Perl	Floodgap Free Software License (FFSL) [39]	58		[40]
ihttpd	?	Unix	C		40		[41]
JLHTTP	Amichai Rothman	Any OS with Java 1.5 or higher	Java	GPL / Dual License	34		[42]
KLone	KoanLogic	Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, QNX, VxWorks, Darwin/Mac OS X, Windows	C	GPL	200		[43]
Kolibri	SENKAS	Windows	C++	GPL	?		[44]
Kolibri+	SENKAS	Windows	C++	Closed source	?		[45]
leahhtpd	GNU	Unix, Linux, Windows	C		?		[46]
libmicrohttpd	GNU	Unix, Linux, Windows	C	LGPL	25		[47]
libwebserver	Luis Figueiredo	Unix, Linux, Windows	C	LGPL [48]	231		[49]
lighttpd	Jan Kneschke	Unix, Linux, Windows	C	BSD [50]	?	1.4.22 (Mar 7, 2009)	[51]
Lite Netquestion HTTP Web Server	?	AIX			28		?
Mongoose	Sergey Lyubka ("valenok")	Windows, QNX, *BSD, Solaris, Linux, Portable to any OS	C	MIT	56	2.7 (July 8, 2009)	[52]
Mongrel	Zed A. Shaw	Unix, Linux, Windows	Ruby	GPL [53]	?	1.1.5 (May 22, 2008)	[54]
Monkey HTTP Daemon	Eduardo Silva	Linux	C	GPLv2	45		[55]
muhttpd	Robbert Haarman	UNIX	C	?	25		[56]
NaninHttpd	?	All Ruby	Ruby		14		[57]
NanoHTTPD	Jarno Elonen	Any OS with Java 1.1 or higher	Java	Modified BSD	28		[58]
Webserver included with JRE 1.6+	Sun	Any OS with Java 1.6 or higher	Java	Sun Java license	0 (already included with java libraries)		[59]
Nanoweb	Vincent Negrier, Mario Salzer, and others	Any that supports PHP	PHP 4.3	GPL	?	2.2.9 (Jun 10, 2008)	[60]
nginx	Igor Sysoev	Unix-like, Windows	C	BSD	468	0.6.34 (Nov 27, 2008)	[61]
NicheStack HTTP Server	InterNiche Technologies [62]	Any 16 or 32bit embedded	C	Closed source	9	v3.1	[63]
nostromo - nhttpd	Marcus Glocker	Unix-like, OpenBSD developed	C	MIT	55		[64]
Null httpd	?	Linux, Windows[1]	C		52		[65]
nweb	Nigel Griffiths	Unix	C		36		[66]
Obelisk-HTTP	Filipe Caldas	Any OS with Python	Python		50	0.4.4 (Sep 27, 2007)	[67]
PS-HTTPD	Anders Karlsson		PostScript	GPL	8		[68]
publicfile	Dan J. Bernstein	Any POSIX OS	C	Public Domain	29		[69]
pronghorn	Niklas Schulze	Unix, Linux, Windows	C, D	GPL	?	0.8	[70]
qshttpd	Cosmin Gorgovan	Unix	C	GPL	16		[71]
Rupy	?	Any OS with Java 1.4 or higher	Java	LGPL	45		[72]
SAS	?	Linux	Assembly		0.941		[73]
Seminole	GladeSoft	eCos, VxWorks, POSIX, Win32, uCOS	C		?		[74]
Shttp	Yingyuan Cheng	Linux	C	GPLv2	16		[75]
Simple HTTPD	Charlie Lee	Unix	C		12		[76]
Spud	?	Embedded PIC16F876			1		[77]
SWILL	David Beazley and Sotiria Lampoudi	Windows, Unix	C		116		[78]
Techlogica HTTP Server	Kyle White	Windows			292		[79]
thttpd	Acme Labs	Unix	C		50[2]	2.25b (2003-12-29)	[80]
TinyWeb	Maxim Masiutin	Win32	Delphi		53		[81]
Tntnet	Tommi Mäkitalo	Unix	C++	LGPL	940		[82]
TWS	D. Richard Hipp	Windows, Unix	C	GPL	?	0.1	[83]
UIP	Adam Dunkels	Embedded 8bit	C		?		[84]
VQEmbWeb	Gareth Cronin	Any OS with support for Java 5	Java		12		[85]
webAce	Fredric White	Embedded Fairchild ACE1101MT8[3]	ACE1101MT8 microcontroller instructions		1 (1074 bytes)[3]		http://d116.com/ace/
wxWebServer	Fedja Stevanovic	Windows, Mac OS X, Linux	C++		?		[86]
Allegro Embedded WebServer	?	Portable to any OS	C	?	?		[87]
Mini httpd	Jef Poskanzer	UNIX	C	GPL	41		[88]
Micro HTTPD	Jef Poskanzer	UNIX	C	GPL	4.98		[89]
JS httpd	Jef Poskanzer	UNIX	Javascript	GPL	4.16		[90]
Plain Old Webserver	David Kellogg	Any OS Mozilla Firefox runs on	Javascript	GPL	80.1		[91]
Pure Perl CGId	Erik Aronesty	Any OS perl runs on	Perl	GPL	11.5		[92]
Wt	emweb	Linux/BSD/Solaris/..., Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS X, Others	C++	GPL/Commercial Dual License [93]	250		[94]
Xavante	The Kepler Project	Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac OS X, Others	Lua	GPL compatible	38		[95]
ZwebServer	Travis Cunningham[clarification needed]	Windows 2000/XP/Vista	C#		132		http://zotagsearch.com/zwebserver/
Server	Creator	Operating Systems	Development Language	License	Size (kB)	Latest Stable Version	Home

[edit] See also

• Comparison of web servers
• Embedded HTTP server
• Lighttpd vs. nginx

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