Simple and small web server (software)
 

If you are a developer or a designer, I'm sure you were faced with a need for a web server. You move to another computer / laptop , you need to run your site locally , simple script.... and you need to go through the whole procedure of installing software that you need to use only once or twice.

Well, as I found out there is a nice solution to this: Mongoose

Mongoose is an ultra light-weight web server for Windows. It's 56 kb, yes things like this still exist, not all software developers rely on heavy VB library abuse. It can run even from a single file, no need to install / start / stop services. Standalone application is sufficient for most basic stuff, though I think you can also set it up for more complicated usage.

You can easily plug-in also PHP, all you need to do is copy 3 files: php-cgi.exe, php5.dll and php.ini into same directory, then add 2 lines of code into Mongoose config. Adding SQL is easy too.

Only disadvantage is it doesn't have graphical interface, but that is not a problem for developers anyway.

not bad, so it actually works well, you tried it out?

Yes, so far it worked fine -tested it with a custom PHP script. I will try also a SQLite probably.

You gotta love portable appz like this. One pen drive and you can work comfortably on any new computer.

Here is a nice article on how to setup the Mongoose: http://www.praggo.com/2009/12/web-se...ilds-play.html

developers better off replicating live production environment apache/php/mysql/etc. locally for the use of modules and such.

although small web server maybe useful at times

I remember using VB back in 97,98 and relied heavily on those libraries :) Active X controls saved my life. 56k is a small file size for sure.

Sounds like a great app. Thanks.

I agree, developing scripts in "foreign" environment can result in non-functional scripts when deployed.

But I was referring to simpler usage, for example if you use PHP as parser, file manipulations, or just quick check for php errors.