Looking for a good, simple and small no cost webserver

[kandrathe]

I am looking for a webserver to run on my home computer. It will only be used for various private uses and hence can and should be simple, small but reliable and good (and safe of course). Long ago, I used to run the xitami web server (it served well, allowing hundrads of thusands of downloads of my guide by the way). I liked it, it was simple and easy to handle (for the uses I had, I could easilly handle som simple accounts and protect pages and direct different uses, the few I had to different places and so on). It seems it is still at trhe same release I used back then and was discontinued in 2001. However, I liked it. So my question is, is there som other similar new web server I should look at? If anyone knows it, it is still OK and safe to use (seems so). Any input or suggestion appreciated.

Apache? Pretty standard, easy to install, lots of features, lots of add-ons, used all over on many OS's, and is free. Spend some time securing it though. Since it is well known, so are the sploits.