What Is a Local Web Server? Behind every website is a web server. This term can refer to both software and hardware: the program that listens for URL requests and serves documents in return, and ...

While the process of setting up a local Web server in order to experiment with tools such as WordPress or Omeka sounds time-intensive, you can do it while your pot of coffee is brewing.

The solution: Install a local web server on your home computer, then run PHProxy from there. Setting one up is actually a lot easier than you may think.

Local web server will also reportedly reinstall Zoom if a user removes the application and joins a meeting.

Zoom has decided to kill off its controversial local web server on Mac devices that allows users of the video conferencing software to avoid an extra click to get into a meeting. On Tuesday, Zoom ...

In a since-patched version of Zoom, this same vulnerability could also have been used to conduct denial of service attacks on someone through continuous pings to that local web server.