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Asked: 2026-06-09T20:06:34+00:00

There are a few tools that I’m developing and one of them requires you

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There are a few tools that I’m developing and one of them requires you to be able to easily create a webserver instance in any folder and run as any user. Something simple like NodeJS, but works with multiple platforms and has an quick and dirty integration with a server-side language.

PHP requires you to setup PHP + Apache. Rails requires Ruby + Ruby Gems and Rails (this is pretty daunting for someone who doesn’t normally use a command line). NodeJS is simple, but you need to build everything from scratch.

Basically what the end user to be able todo is:

  1. download and extract the tool (which has the webserver itself contained within its setup files) and put everything into a directory.

  2. run directory/start (this will work as any user).

Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The best solution in this case is to use something like sinatra or a Java-compiled program which spawns a HTTP web server. Everything else either needs to be compiled or installed onto the system and doesn’t support a server-side programming language.

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