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Dev tools · June 23, 2014

Fenix Web Server

A simple static desktop web server

Fenix Web Server launched on June 23, 2014 with 77 votes, #498 of 1,531 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

What it does

Fenix is a beautiful desktop web server designed for developers and designers.

Click to fire up/kill static web servers. Auto-detects available ports. Includes a request bin, Growl support, Markdown rendering, and a slick command line tool . Visually manage local sites side by side, with thumbnails, logs, and more. Develop locally, share online through localtunnel — with a simple mouse click. Fenix is for developers and designers working with static sites. Skip the infrastructure headaches. It's beautifully simple. Work on multiple sites simultaneously. Serve any number of HTTP projects side by side with Fenix. Fenix serves and receives. View JSON, XML, and other webhook payloads with the request browser. Create, stop, start, and share Fenix servers from the…from fenixwebserver.com

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