1and1 and http compression

I have not been able to find any info about 1and1 and http compression. It’s a shame as it really reduces bandwidth, increases transfer speed, etc. Fortunately this little script does a really nice job of it. It’s in PHP and it works a treat on 1and1. With a bit of rewrite magic I should be able to access the files normally and the gzipped ones will be passed in when needed. Nice.

Julien Lecomte’s Blog » Gzip Your Minified JavaScript Files

If your web hosting company does not offer HTTP compression, but gives
you access to PHP (that’s the case of Yahoo! Web Hosting), I wrote a simple PHP script that will compress files and set the cache control headers so that the requested files actually get cached by the browser.

Local subversion on 1and1

1and1 had an update. Good. It broke subversion. Bad. After a short fight with subversion 1.4.6 (which didn’t work) I thought about using 1.4.5. Fortunately that’s pretty straightforward and… it works! So here are the commands for that. I develop on Eclipse using a JumpBox Trac/Subversion server locally. Changes to my Django app and Flex app are stored there. Then I can pull it from outside over ssh. Very helpful. Well… 1and1 is only file hosting. Webfaction hosts the fun stuff.

cd ~/some/src/directory
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.4.5.tar.gz
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.4.5.tar.gz
tar xvfz subversion-1.4.5.tar.gz
tar xvfz subversion-deps-1.4.5.tar.gz
cd subversion-1.4.5
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install