[geeks] Simple web server?

[James Birdsall]

Apache has grown enormously and is now like using a whale to swat a fly 
if all you want to do is serve some static content. Surely somebody out 
there has written a web server that is small and simple to configure, 
for those with minimal needs. After thinking about it for a bit, I 
really only have three requirements: 1) virtual domains, 2) basic 
password control for a few directories, and 3) the ability to 
autogenerate a directory listing for directories which don't have an 
index.html.

Does anybody have any recommendations?

Thanks!

--James