I have a couple of compressed zip file with static HTML content (e.g. a directory tree of documentation with several static html pages that link to each other, images, css, etc.) For instance, the javadoc zip file serves as an equivalent example for my purpose.
My question is, if there's an apache module that would allow apache to "mount" a zip file as a virtual directory, whose contents are those of the zip file. The operating system in which I'm hosting apache is Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
There is a zip filesystem for FUSE, which is supported on OS X via the MacFUSE project. This will let you mount a zip file via the mount command, thus allowing Apache -- or any other application -- to access its contents as a normal directory.
I don't have my Mac handy at the moment so I can't actually test it out.