Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to lighttpd

Product categories

Application Server Business & Commerce Development Development Tools HTTP/2 Web Server Java Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy Open Source Ruby Application Server Web And Application Servers Web Servers

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to lighttpd are Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, and Phusion Passenger. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Apache HTTP Server Landing Page
1

Apache HTTP Server

Apache httpd has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 50 social mentions
Apache Tomcat Landing Page
2

Apache Tomcat

An open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web And Application Servers #Application Server #Java 14 social mentions
Phusion Passenger Landing Page
3

Phusion Passenger

Phusion Passenger is a multi-language (Ruby, Python, Node) web & app server which can integrate into Apache and Nginx
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Servers #HTTP/2 Web Server #Web And Application Servers 1 social mentions
Wildfly Landing Page
4

Wildfly

WildFly is a flexible, lightweight application server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 1 social mentions
Gunicorn Landing Page
5

Gunicorn

Gunicorn is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 31 social mentions
nginx Landing Page
6

nginx

A high performance free open source web server powering busiest sites on the Internet.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 46 social mentions
Apache ZooKeeper Landing Page
7

Apache ZooKeeper

Apache ZooKeeper is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source server which enables highly reliable distributed coordination.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 29 social mentions
web2py Landing Page
8

web2py

Web2py is an open source web application framework.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 1 social mentions
Caddy Landing Page
9

Caddy

The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Servers #HTTP/2 Web Server #Web And Application Servers 226 social mentions
Laragon Landing Page
10

Laragon

All in one web server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web And Application Servers #Development Tools #Web Servers 54 social mentions
Wt Landing Page
11

Wt

Wt (pronounced as witty) is a C++ library for developing web applications.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web And Application Servers #Development #Business & Commerce
Puma Landing Page
12

Puma

A concurrent web server for Ruby.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web And Application Servers #Application Server #Web Servers 3 social mentions