Best lightweight web server only static content for Windows

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I got application server running in Windows     IIS6 0 with Zend Server to execute PHP  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   It need to be only static content web server     maximum small and maximum effective     lighttpd seems too big because allow to FastCGI   I am looking for  Windows  static content only  fast  and lightweight   I am using Windows Server 2003

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I played a bit with Rupy  It s a pretty neat  open source  GPL  Java application and weighs less than 60KB  Give it a try

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You can use Python as a quick way to host static content  On Windows  there are many options for running Python  I ve personally used CygWin and ActivePython     To use Python as a simple HTTP server just change your working directory to the folder with your static content and type python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000  everything in the directory will be available at http  localhost 8000    Python 3  To do this with Python  3 4 1  and probably other versions of Python 3   use the http server module   python -m http server  lt PORT gt    or possibly  python3 -m http server  lt PORT gt     example  python -m http server 8080   On Windows   py -m http server  lt PORT gt

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nginx or G-WAN  http   nbonvin wordpress com 2011 03 24 serving-small-static-files-which-server-to-use

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You can try running a simple web server based on Twisted

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Consider thttpd   It can run under windows     Quoting wikipedia       it is uniquely suited to service high   volume requests for static data    A version of thttpd-2 25b compiled under cygwin with cygwin dll s is available   It is single threaded and particularly good for servicing images

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The smallest one I know is lighttpd      Security  speed  compliance  and flexibility -- all of these describe lighttpd  pron  lighty  which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver  as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments  With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers  effective management of the cpu-load  and advanced feature set  FastCGI  SCGI  Auth  Output-Compression  URL-Rewriting and many more  lighttpd is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems  And best of all it s Open Source licensed under the revised BSD license     Main site  http   www lighttpd net    Edit  removed Windows version link  now a spam malware plugin site

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Have a look at Cassini   This is basically what Visual Studio uses for its built-in debug web server   I ve used it with Umbraco and it seems quite good

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Have a look at mongoose    single executable very small memory footprint allows multiple worker threads easy to install as service configurable with a configuration file if required

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