enable gzip compression via .htaccess

Hi there,

maybe you are running on Apche 2?

Try this...

 

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
  <FilesMatch "\.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$">
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
  </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

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If you can use php on your server and do not have console access, try this to get a list of modules

http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.apache-get-modules.php

--TheDoctor

From phpinfo():
Server API      Apache 2.0 Handler

so i think you are right. but it doesn't work..

Did you try the procedure described behind the link to get the installed modules?

--TheDoctor

excuse me, didn't see that.
it returns:

Array ( [0] => core [1] => mod_log_config [2] => mod_logio [3] => itk [4] => http_core [5] => mod_so [6] => mod_actions [7] => mod_alias [8] => mod_auth_basic [9] => mod_auth_plain [10] => mod_authn_file [11] => mod_authz_default [12] => mod_authz_host [13] => mod_authz_user [14] => mod_autoindex [15] => mod_cgi [16] => mod_dir [17] => mod_env [18] => mod_expires [19] => mod_include [20] => mod_info [21] => mod_mime [22] => mod_mime_magic [23] => mod_reservefd [24] => mod_negotiation [25] => mod_php5 [26] => mod_rewrite [27] => mod_setenvif [28] => mod_ssl [29] => mod_status [30] => mod_suexec )

Hmm, seems you're out of luck since the modules are missing.

Can you check your provider if adding the mod is an option?

Alternatively, if youre building a php site, have a look here:

http://www.webcodingtech.com/php/gzip-compression.php

--TheDoctor

2 bad for me..

yes, i am building a php site. does your script also compress css and js scripts that are include in the site like this:
<script src="./scripts/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

#
# mod_deflate options
#
# WARNING mime type here is type from extension,
# not from actual content type header
#
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/javascript application/x-javascript

SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI ^/simeURLyouwanttoexclude/ no-gzip !dont-vary

SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png|swf)$ no-gzip dont-vary

# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
#
DeflateCompressionLevel 3
DeflateFilterNote Input instream
DeflateFilterNote Output outstream
DeflateFilterNote Ratio ratio

#

Note - use mod_deflate, do NOT use mod_gzip. It is outdated and not maintained.

Thanks a1j!

Do i only have to add this to my .htaccess? nothing else? Leave the rest of my page like it is?

what should i do with this line:
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI ^/simeURLyouwanttoexclude/ no-gzip !dont-vary

Thanks!!

Hi again peps03,

if you want to compress any static content like css and js, you need to write a little
php-script based on the code on the linked webpage which gets the requested content, eg. main.css nad compresses it.

Then, with a mod_rewrite line in yout .htaccess, you can map a request on the /css location to that script.

--TheDoctor

Hi Doc!

I now compressed the files manually as my hosting provider doesn't support that function.

I think i'm already using the script your talking about here: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Scripting/CGI/Q_27031447.html

but i'm having issues with that as you can read there.

Is this script what you meant?

Thanks!

I dont know if it will work in .htaccess, you can try though.

You can delete that line, i added it as example.
You also have to add content type of your php files if you want to compress output from them.

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