Pune to Alibag distance :115Km.
Route : Pune->Lonawala->Khopoli->Pen->Alibaug

Nagaon Beach:
This is the one of the cleanest, enjoyable Beach. Friends, Couples can freely enjoy. Very open cultured place. You can drink on the Beach also. Fun…

Do you remember “Sagar Kinare Dil Ye Pukare” from film Sagar ? That is Nagaon..approximately 7 Km from Alibag, on Alibag-Revdanda road. Famous place for Coconuts and betel-nuts. … very calm and quite place.

This village has beautiful gardens closed to sea beach, big and small wells and temples. The beach is 2 km away from village and is famous as “Satad Beach”.

State Transport buses , eight sitters, auto-rickshaws available for traveling to Nagaon. It takes approx.30 min. The village has facility of hotels, private bungalows, rent houses etc. Homemade( Konkani style) food facility is also available.

Mandwa Beach:

You can see Mumbai city from this beach. View of Gateway way of India, Tajmahal. Village of Fishers, Fishers Boat. Nice, clean Beach.

Approximately 20 Kms from Alibag. You might have seen Mandwa in movies like Insaaf (Vinod Khanna, Dimple Kapadia), Sagar (Rishi Kapur, Dimple Kapadia), Agnipath (Amitabh, Madhavi, Danny)etc. It is a nice place. You can see lot of baglows of Filmstars.

It is possible to reach village Mandwa by S.T. bus and upto Jetty by auto-rickshaw. This Jetty is very beautiful and calm. There are Coconut trees on the beach. The beach has beautiful scenery around it. Mumbai city can be seen on a clear day from this Jetty. Daily up-down of launches and catamarans available from Gateway of India to the Jetty. Tourists should not miss the opportunity of availing the experience of opportunity of cool and calm climate while traveling through the blue sea and ‘L’ shaped Jetty having natural beauty of its own is very different from others.

Kihim Beach: Mumbai Weekend Beaches Kihim Alibag

“You are from Alibag… Do you know “King Ham” beach?” Somone in US asked me last week. “Emm..No”…I was trying to recall but could not…Suddenly I realized that he was talking about Kihim.

It is situated west of Kihim-Chondhi Chauk, approximately 9 Km from Alibag. Crowded with employess of Rashtriya Chemical Fertilizers(RCF, Thal).

It takes approximately half an hour to reach Kihim by auto-rickshaw or by bus. This beach is a very attractive halt for tourists. Because of its natural beauty, beach keeps you in a very pleasant mood. You can see soft and golden sand only on this beach. You can watch different types of birds here.

Do you know that the great ornithologist Salim Ali used to stay here?

You can stay in Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation(MTDC)’s resort. Also Rashriya Chemicals and Fertilizers LTD co. has built a huge Rest-House at Kihim for tourists. Besides this hotels, private bungalows and rented houses are also available in the village.

Kashid Beach:

On Alibag-Murud Highway…. just 32 Km from Alibag… Place away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

Although I never had been there, it is highly recommended by my friends.

This beach is calm and quite having lots of cypress trees on shore. Soft and Golden sand, pleasant climate of this beach attracts tourist from various places. S.T.bus and Private rickshaws are available to reach this beach

Akshi Beach:

Akshi is a ever green village. Just 5 Km from Alibag … Full of fishers… Generally not crowded…(That’s the reason I love it).

One can travel by Alibag-Revdanda bus, eight sitter auto rickshaw or private vehicles to Akhshi. It takes approx.15 min. All houses in village are built in deep shadow of coconut, betel-nut trees.

One more important thing…Don’t miss the epigraph prepared by Raja Keshidevaray in the year 1012. If you are studying Marathi literature…you might be knowing that.

In this premises their is an epigraph prepared by Konkan Shiladar King Keshidevaray in Sanskrit and mix marathi language in Devanagari script is found dating to the year 1012. Also in this premises an Epigraph prepared by Devgiri Yadav King Ramchandra in Sanskrit and mixed Marathi Language in Devnagari script is found dating to the year 1291. An epigraph of Kashidevray is the first ever available epigraph.

Alibag Beach Alibaug Beach, Nagaon, Mandwa, Kihim, Kashid, Akshi Seashore

Varsoli Beach: You must go here Valsoli beach is very near to Alibaug(2km from Bus stand)

Varsoli beach is just 2 Km from Alibag S.T. stand. You can go to this beach by Mahesh Cinema theater. Major attractions are fresh air, pollution free atmosphere, gardens of cypress, coconut and palm trees. The number one attraction of Varsoli is total peace and quiet.  You can simply relax. Visit the beach at once.

It is situated just on the outskirts of Alibag. It is relatively less visited site and as a result is a quiet beach with sparkling white sand and cleaner seawater. Varsoli is a small satellite village across Alibag, complete with thick vegetation of coconut and

Rewdanda Port:

Rewdanda port is historical port just 17 Km from Alibag S.T. Depot. The salav bridge on creek combines Murud and Alibag taluka. You can see transports ships, scene of Vikram Ispat Company on left side and jetty of Vikram Ispat company on right hand side from Salav bridge.    S.T. stand and Auto stands are near this Rewdanda port.  The small jetty (Dhakka) behind S.T. stand in creek.  The main profession of the people is Fishery in this area.  The fisherman’s ships, boats strands at this jetty for purchasing and selling fishes. Rewdanda is also known as Mini-Goa.Nagaute

Installation of Apatana in Detail

1. Download zip file from this location(http://www.aptana.com/studio/download)
File name:Aptana_Studio_Setup_Linux_1.2.7.zip
2. Then uncompress the .zip file. and copy the resulting ‘aptana’ folder under ‘/home/siwan’.(siwan is my username for fedora, you have replace your username)
3. Install xulrunner (for install xulrunner user following command, Became root first)
yum install xulrunner
or follow this step
Down load xulrunner from this url
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/1.8.1.3/contrib/linux-i686/xulrunner-1.8.1.3.en-US.linux-i686-20080128.tar.gz
Unarchive using file roller to get a ‘xulrunner’ folder.
Open a terminal, and type the following commands, changing the path in the last line ie nigel to your username.
(for install xulrunner user following command, Became root first)

mkdir /usr/lib/xulrunner
cp -r /home/nigel/Download/xulrunner/* /usr/lib/xulrunner

4. Create a new file called say ‘aptana.sh’ and make it executable
use this command for make file executable.
Became root user first.
cd /home/siwan/aptana/
chmod +x aptana.sh
5. Copy the following into that text file

#!/bin/sh
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner
if [ $LD_LIBRARY_PATH ]; then
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
else
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME
fi
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/home/siwan/aptana/AptanaStudio

Then run the aptana.sh file.
Enjoy with Aptana Studio

To install memcached server on linux/fedora box
yum install memcached

Find help for memcached commands and option
memcached -help

Start memcached server(11211 is default port Number for memcached server)
memcached -m 500 -l 192.168.2.4 -p 11211 -vv
(192.168.2.4 this is my local ip address you can cahnge that)

Stop the Memcached server
ps -ef|grep memcached
kill PROCESS_ID

start memcached server with
memcached -m 500 -l 192.168.2.4 -p 11211 -vv

How to install on Windows server:
1.  Downloaded this Win32 port of memcached by Kenneth Dalgleish.(download from following url)

http://thewebfellas.com/blog/2008/6/9/rails-2-1-now-with-better-integrated-caching

2. Extracted the files to C:\Program Files\memcached
3. Opened a command prompt in the folder and installed memcached as a service using memcached -d install
4. Started the service using net start “memcached Server”

How to use memcache in Rails app?
Open  /config/environments/development.rb for development mode,
production.rb for production mode.
paste following line into file.
config.cache_store = :mem_cache_store, ’127.0.0.1′, ’127.0.0.1:11211′ , { :namespace => ‘dev’ }
(127.0.0.1 this is my local ip address you can cahnge or point out to any server where memcached server is running)
Restart mongrel server. you are ready to use memcached server

How to use in Rails
@user= User.find(1)—–OLD Code

New Code With Caching:
@user = cache(['User',1],:expires_in => 30.minutes) do
User.find(1)
end

I am using Fedora 10 so for that linux version i used these commands for setting up my server.

Installing Nginx:
yum install nginx

Then we create the system startup links for nginx:
/sbin/chkconfig –level 35 nginx on

We can make PHP5 work in nginx through FastCGI.For that install all this packages:
yum install lighttpd-fastcgi php-cli php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc php-eaccelerator php-magickwand php-magpierss php-mapserver php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mhash php-mssql php-shout php-snmp php-soap php-tidy

Then open /etc/php.ini and add the line cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 right at the end of the file:
vi /etc/php.ini
paste this line :- cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1

To start a PHP FastCGI daemon listening on port 9000 on localhost and running as the user and group nginx, we run the following command:
/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9000 -u nginx -g nginx -f /usr/bin/php-cgi -P /var/run/fastcgi-php.pid

To restart PHP FastCGI daemon, Use this command:
ps -ef|grep php-cgi
kill PROCESS_ID

you don’t want to type in that command manually whenever you boot the system, so to have the system execute the command automatically at boot time, open /etc/rc.local…
vi /etc/rc.local
and add the command at the end of the file:
/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9000 -u nginx  -g nginx -f /usr/bin/php-cgi -P /var/run/fastcgi-php.pid

THEN STOP THE APACHE WEB SERVER:
/sbin/init.d/httpd stop
To stop apache on every startup:
/sbin/chkconfig –level 35 httpd off

First take backup of your nginx configuration file:
cp /etc/nginx/nginx.conf nginx.conf_cp
use nginx.conf file from life180 “config/nginx” folder

// Reconstruct a date object from date_select helper form params

// place this code into your application.rb file
def build_date_from_params(field_name, params)
Date.new(params["#{field_name.to_s}(1i)"].to_i,
params["#{field_name.to_s}(2i)"].to_i,
params["#{field_name.to_s}(3i)"].to_i)
end

//You can changes order of displaying into view
<%= date_select ‘from’, ‘date’ ,:order => [:day, :month, :year] %>
<%= date_select ‘to’, ‘date’,:order => [:day, :month, :year]  %>

//goes into controller -- add your own error handling/defaults, please!
@from = build_date_from_params(:date, params[:from])
@to = build_date_from_params(:date, params[:to])

Comparing date time into controller

@users_reports = User.find(:all, :conditions=>['created_at >= ? and created_at < ?', @to, @from])

If you want to add some different text or HTML code just use following code:

<?php if (is_home() { ?>
HTML CODE GOES HERE OR TEXT

<? } ?>

Have fun!