Adding Alias to Xampp / Add alias folder

The first thing you have to do is add an alias directory to your XAMPP install. If you’re running Windows, create the following folder.

C:\xampp\apache\conf\alias

Next, you’ll need to modify your Apache configuration file. You can find it under C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf. To make changes, you’ll need to edit it as an administrator. If you’re running Windows Vista or Windows 7, your best bet is to open Notepad as an administrator and then open httpd.conf. To open Notepad (or any other application) as an administrator, right click on it and select “Run as administrator”.

Once you’ve opened httpd.conf, add the following to the end and save it.

Include "conf/alias/*"

Now Apache will look in the alias folder for additional configuration files. This way all you have to do to add an alias is add a new alias configuration file to the alias folder.

Let’s do that now. Suppose you want to add an alias called “dev”. First, download this alias template file and place it in the alias folder. Rename it to “dev.conf” (or whatever you’re alias is called). You’ll need to edit the template (again, as an administrator) and replace “DIRECTORY” (it’s there twice) with the path to the alias and “ALIAS” with the name of your alias. In our example, it looks something like this:

<Directory "C:\users\foo\programming\dev">

    #

    # Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",

    # or any combination of:

    #   Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews

    #

    # Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"

    # doesn't give it to you.

    #

    # The Options directive is both complicated and important.  Please see

    # http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options

    # for more information.

    #

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI

    #

    # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.

    # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:

    #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit

    #

    AllowOverride All

    #

    # Controls who can get stuff from this server.

    #     Order allow,deny

    Allow from all 

</Directory>

Alias /dev "C:\users\foo\programming\dev"

Restart Apache (you can do so from the XAMPP control panel) and check out http://localhost/dev

Reference: http://www.itsananderson.com/2011/02/adding-apache-aliases-in-xampp/

How to create and extract zip, tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 files in Linux

ZIP

To compress a directory with zip do the following:

# zip -r archive_name.zip directory_to_compress

Here’s how you extract a zip archive:

# unzip archive_name.zip

TAR

Tar is probably the Linux/UNIX version of zip – quick and dirty.

# tar -cvf archive_name.tar directory_to_compress

And to extract the archive:

# tar -xvf archive_name.tar.gz

This will extract the files in the archive_name.tar archive in the current directory. Like with the tar format you can optionally extract the files to a different directory:

# tar -xvf archive_name.tar -C /tmp/extract_here/

TAR.GZ

This format is my weapon of choice for most compression. It gives very good compression while not utilizing too much of the CPU while it is compressing the data. To compress a directory use the following syntax:

# tar -zcvf archive_name.tar.gz directory_to_compress

To decompress an archive use the following syntax:

# tar -zxvf archive_name.tar.gz

This will extract the files in the archive_name.tar.gz archive in the current directory. Like with the tar format you can optionally extract the files to a different directory:

# tar -zxvf archive_name.tar.gz -C /tmp/extract_here/

TAR.BZ2

This format has the best level of compression among all of the formats I’ve mentioned here. But this comes at a cost – in time and in CPU. Here’s how you compress a directory using tar.bz2:

# tar -jcvf archive_name.tar.bz2 directory_to_compress

This will extract the files in the archive_name.tar.bz2 archive in the current directory. To extract the files to a different directory use:

# tar -jxvf archive_name.tar.bz2 -C /tmp/extract_here/

Reference: http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/12/15/how-to-create-and-extract-zip-tar-targz-and-tarbz2-files-in-linux/