Webmixer

Webmixer is a secure personal webserver with both static and dynamic mapping of local directories.

URL mapping
Starting parts of URLs requested by web browsers (or generally by web clients) are matched against the mapped URLs. The first mapping that fits for a given URL is used for translating the requested URL to the respective local directory. If e.g. a mapping is:

/project/ => /local/dir/
then e.g. URL /project/results/page.html is translated to the /local/dir/results/page.html file.
The dynamic mappings are tested first, because they are created to not collide with other mappings. Then the static mappings are tested, from the first (top) to the last (bottom) ones. If no fitting mapping is found, no local file is served.
Directories and html files can be accessed directly, with files of other types being served from within html files only.

Example use
Some Javascript libraries, e.g. for WebGL, cannot be loaded from html files read directly from filesystem. It means that local use of such Javascript libraries requires to have a local web server running.
Since html files with use of WebGL can be located in disparate directories, it requires either to have respective projects covered overall by a local web server, making it insecure, or to have a web server where disparate directories can be put virtually together. Webmixer allows such virtual aligning of disparate directories.
Locally installed software can even dynamically ask Webmixer to make such mappings when a user accesses html files that require serving via a web server. TGM Minima is such a software that supports dynamic mapping via Webmixer.

Security
The Webmixer web server only serves GET requests and only on localhost. It limits the possibilities of attacks to software present on user's computer. Web browsers can present such attacks, since a page loaded from a remote server can still make requests to localhost.
To avoid attacks from malicious web pages, the file serving by Webmixer disallows cross-origin resource sharing. The "Host" request header is checked to avoid situations when an attacker sets its DNS to 127.0.0.1 to confuse web browsers. Along with that, the "Referer" header is required and checked for all but html pages, so that attacking web pages can load at most html pages, but not Javascript files nor other resources. Even if a html page gets loaded by an attacker, it cannot be read by it, because the "X-Content-Type-Options" header is sent to prevent the served html pages to be interpreted as e.g. Javascript, thus avoiding any leaking.
Directory listing is supported, but only with presenting subdirectories and html files, i.e. not Javascript files, images, etc. to limit any possibility of leaks based on complete listings. Hidden directories and files (tested under Linux) are not served at all.
The process of dynamic setting requires the clients to have access to local file system, making it secure, since malicious web pages do not have such an access.

Webmixer website: webmixer.tangloid.net