Light-weight alternative to Apache In my set-up, I run (as root) `ln -s ~/share /var/www`. By doing this, anyone on the local network will access the _~/share_ directory by pointing their browsers at < I use `apache`, but I suspect that it's overkill (memory usage) for this simple use. What alternative light-weight web servers can I use for this? Will it also be tinker-free (in Debian, there's no extra set-up for `apache`, beyond installation)?

You will have a long list for this. At my workplace we have Cherokee instead of Apache. Cherokee has a nice web admin interface that makes configuration really easy.

I also heard about Nginx and lighttpd.