Apache web server referred to as simply Apache is a public-domain open source Web server developed by open community of developers. The application is designed to run on a wide variety of operating systems like Unix, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2. Visit http://www.apache.org for more details. In your terminal, issue the following command (by default, httpd is installed). This will install apache if it was not installed. (more…)

SciTE is one of the IDE's available under Freeware category in the market for PHP/ASP/Ruby/++ scripting. I have used that as an example to answer the above question. Once the software is downloaded and configured in your system, you might want to create a shortcut for that application in the desktop. Creating a symbolic link would help you in that. [root@user Desktop]# ln -s /usr/local/bin/SciTE $HOME/Desktop/scite i.e. [root@user Desktop]# ln -s [path-to-executable-file] [TARGET-location-where-shortcut-is-to-be-created]