Util for a light weight web server on linux

Out of curiosity rather than necessity, 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 i开发者_如何学Cnstall. Basically would like to programmatically start the web server.

Please let me know if the question feels incomplete and you would like more information.

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netcat

while true; do nc -l -p 80 -q 1 < somepage.html; done

Source.

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you may look at SimpleHTTPServer. It is in Python, but useful enough. Here is how to use it.

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jetty is pretty popular

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Lighttpd is a pretty awesome light-weight server for linux

http://www.lighttpd.net/

Wikipedia also has an article comparing lightweight web servers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_lightweight_web_servers

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There are several light HTTP Daemons for Linux.

I would recomend:

• Lighttpd - http://www.lighttpd.net/
• NGix - http://nginx.org/

I'm sure other people have other sugestions.