Compression is a simple and effective way to speed up your site. Modern browsers supports gzip compressed content and are capable of uncompressing gzip data into plain text.

The gzip module configuration depends on your Apache Server version:
Apache 1.3 uses mod_gzip while Apache 2.x uses mod_deflate.

mod_gzip configuration for Apache 1.3.x:

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WAMPs are packages of independently-created programs installed on computers that use a Microsoft Windows operating system. “WAMP” is an acronym formed from the initials of the operating system (Windows) and the components: Apache, MySQL and PHP (or Perl or Python).

Here I’m listing few such open source WAMP packages.

1. WampServer

WampServer is a Windows web development environment. It allows you to create web applications with Apache, PHP and the MySQL database. It also comes with PHPMyAdmin to easily manage your databases.

WampServer will install Apache, PHP5 and MySQL on your Windows system. WampServer comes with a service manager as a tray icon. It will allow you to easily manage your server. You can install all releases of Apache, MySQL and PHP as add-ons.

You can switch online/offline to give access to everyone or only localhost. Read more

Simple Directory Listing

Simple Directory Listing is a single file php script which functions as directory listing in an apache http server.

This script provides many useful functions like -

• Copy/Move, rename, delete directories
• Download files(pass through the php script)
• Read/Edit files
• Create a file/folder
• Upload files
• Set a particular folder as a “virtual root” for directory listing
• Javascript/no javascript
• Unicode supported
• Thumbnail View
• RSS
• FTP Layer

Just upload this script into the directory.