Simple Web Server 4+

Was sad when Web Server For Chrome became deprecated and really happy there is a spritual successor that works EVEN BETTER! THANK YOU!

I embed CGI scripts with my other HTML files, but I name the scripts with a .cgi suffix and make them executable files. Then I pass parameters using the PATH_INFO component of the document's URL and the http GET method. Other web servers such as apache httpd and nginx recognize this and run the script and let the browser render iets output. This app produces a 404 error instead.

For example, on my site, using the GET method for this URL yields a 404, when it should render a form: http://localhost/app.cgi/southbay

This app also serves just one site. You can't configure virtual hosts, and you can't assign different port numbers to different sites. I haven't attempted to have multiple users run their own sites using this app.

Logs are also lacking: The list pages and request times, and a green dot for pages that were delivered successfully. The dot turns red upon error, and there does not seem to be a way to determine the error.

But for static HTML sites, this app seems to work fine.