Comparison of web server software
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Some web application frameworks include simple HTTP servers. For example the Django framework provides runserver, and PHP has a built-in server. These are generally intended only for use during initial development. A production server will require a more robust HTTP front-end such as one of the servers listed here.
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Features
Some features may be intentionally not included in a web server to avoid featuritis. For example:
- TLS/HTTPS may be enabled with a separate stunnel daemon that terminates TLS and redirects raw HTTP packets to an http daemon.
- NGINX and OpenBSD httpd authors decided not to include CGI interpretation, instead using FastCGI. For OpenBSD, a slowcgi gateway was developed.
- BusyBox httpd doesn't have automatically generated directory listing but it may be implemented as a CGI script.