Tag Archive: gzip

October 23, 2015 / by Marco / 7zip, backup, batch, database, File, gzip, mysql, scheduler, script, Task, vbs, Visual Basic Script, wamp, Windows

HOW TO SCHEDULE BACKUPS FOR WAMP FILES AND DATABASES

I managed to figure out a way to backup the WAMP files and databases by using the Windows Task Scheduler and a batch file. The batch file includes using mysqldump (already part of the WAMP install), 7-zip (a free open source compression tool) and gzip (for the database compression). BATCH FILE Let’s have a look […]

June 12, 2014 / by Marco / apache, gzip, snippet, wamp

How to enable GZIP on a WAMP server

There’s a few way to enable GZIP on a WAMP server and here’s what I did to get mine working. This was tested with WAMP version 2.2 WHY ENABLE GZIP? This will increase the speed it takes to load your website. Data is compressed before it is sent and decompressed at the receiver end. This process […]