Lightweight web app server for PHP?

Question

I\'m doing PHP development. And coming from a Rails background, I\'m looking for a like-for-like replacement for Webrick in PHP. Is there such a light weight server? Something w

Answer 1

Back when Lighty was having many reports of memory leaks, someone mentioned Nginx. Ignore the ridiculous name, it's actually the best HTTPd I've ever used (and I've been using Apache since 1.1). Install PHP as FCGI rather than a module and you're golden.