Portable Webserver

Portable Webserver is a software program that provides users with a simple means of deploying and managing an Apache, MySQL or PHP server.

As the name of the app clearly suggests, this product is portable. As a result, you do not have to go through an installation wizard, and the Windows registry is not going to be updated without your knowledge.

By copying the program files to a USB thumb drive, you make it possible to run Portable Webserver on the fly, on any computer you come across.

This utility goes directly in the system tray, and therefore is quite non-obtrusive. You can easily interact with it through a context menu and a pop-up window, which can also be hidden with ease.

It is possible to tweak a pretty large number of options regarding the supported Apache, MySQL and PHP servers. To be more precise, when it comes to Apache, you can easily input its folder, hostname, port, SSL, root directory and relative path, edit “httpd.conf” variables, and select the modules you want to use.

General PHP settings entail you to select “php.ini” variables and extension you want to work with, while the MySQL parameters enable you to select the “my.ini” variables to be used, create username and password, and select database folder, hostname and port.

Aside from that, you can easily open a webserver in your default web browser, navigate the workspace folder, view and open reference documents, as well as start, restart and stop a webserver with just a click of the button.

To sum up, Portable Webserver it’s a pretty efficient piece of software when it comes to creating an Apache, MySQL or PHP webserver with ease. The interface is suitable to all, the response time is good and the computer’s performance is not going to be affected at all.