I use jetty for my container in linux. It's pretty simple and can be picked up
here.
Just download and extract and put the app you want loaded into the webapp directory and then go into the bin directory and run 'jetty.sh start etc/jetty.xml'.
You may have to add the path of your 'installation' into the jetty.sh file. For instance mine is in /usr/local/jetty/jetty-6.1.7, so I added the line /usr/local/jetty/ to the STANDARD_LOCATIONS part, and jetty-6.1.7 to the JETTY_DIR_NAMES part.
To view the files open a browser and go to
http://127.0.0.1:8080/(folder name of app)/(page you want to look at)
I haven't really played around with apache too much so I can't say much about it, but jetty is pretty strait forward.