HTTPServ is a small HTTP (web) server designed for early IBM PCs and similar machines. Features include:

• HTTP/0.9, HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 support
• HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 persistent connections
• HTTP/1.1 request pipelining support
• Up to 8 simultaneous requests can be serviced; an additional 8 requests can be queued
• Ability to improve performance by serving pre-compressed content
• Easy mapping of incoming long URL path components to DOS 8.3 filenames
• HTTP Basic Authentication
• Improved performance through caching of the directory structure and HTACCESS files
• Optional server status page
• Caching of selected files in RAM
• Logging
  

HTTPServ is not a replacement for a modern HTTP server but if you are looking for an easy way to make the files on an old machine browsable from modern machine then it should work well for you. And if you are a hardcore retro-computing enthusiast, you can probably serve your static HTML pages directly from an old machine.

Here is a screen shot of HTTPServ running under DOSBox:

Download

HTTPServ is included with the other mTCP based applications. They can be downloaded from the main mTCP page here.