Nweb revisited.
Nweb ( http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/systems/library/es-nweb/ ) is a neat little web server (among others) that does well on an embedded machine where static files are important to use, You can also use it in concert with a machine that already has a web server running, but beware it is not secure, Generally it is for nix based systems, but might be able to be compiled on other systems. The picture is a screen dump from a system accessing a Pogoplug running nweb on arch linux. Of course you need some content, but the source file for nweb comes with a bit of web content for testing. For testing you can use the source directory you will create. Remember you will have to have the development environment already installed. Note: Good security recommends not having the web development on the system doing the serving. $ mkdir nweb $ cd nweb $ wget ftp://ftp.boulder.ibm.com/systems/power/community/aix/nweb/nweb.zip $ unzip nweb $ ls client.c ...