Simple HTTP Server on Linux

[RichardGv]

Wish I could run a home-based http server on linux, but the real think is that I have never be able to run any Linux software on my computer, but from a USB memory stick.

Who knows if a server could be run that way, but I doubt it because the data transfer is slow than the rate in hard drives.

A web server runs fine on a USB stick, if you can tolerate some speed penalty, and you are not using a USB 1.1 flash drive. I have a whole Arch Linux system on USB stick with a Lighttpd+PHP+MySQL web server. It freezes sometimes when doing heavy I/O operations (like when using Firefox), but it's acceptably fast overall. If you have a USB 3.0 flash drive, then the speed probably utterly wouldn't be a problem.

If you are on Windows, there are numerous HTTP server software out there. Also, Python does have a Windows version, so you could run a Python simple server, too.
http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/
http://downstairs.dnsalias.net/homewebserver.html
http://www.server2go-web.de/download/download.html
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html