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Extremely simple web server for Windows?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 2026171969 views
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A few years ago I used a super simple free web server for Windows. The only thing you had to do was copy an exe to a dir, double-click that exe, and - voilá - that dir was now accessible over HTTP. The only problem is that I can't find that little gem...

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I recently used mongoose for this purpose. It supports Windows. From the homepage: Mongoose executable does not depend on any external library or configuration. If it is copied to any directory and executed, it starts to serve that directory on port 8080. If some additional config is required - for example, different listening port or IP-based access control, then a mongoose.conf file with respective options (see example) can be created in the same directory where executable lives. This makes M…

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