UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? mod_gzip configuration

Based on the info here , I came up with this tentative set of directives for mod_gzip. Do they look reasonable? My objective is to compress as much output as possible, while maintaining compatibility with all client browsers and platforms.

[code][/code]

Looks fine....

Might want to add in content-types rather than extensions, so you'll get text/html from CGI and PHP scripts...

Thanks. But doesn't [code][/code]do that?

You don't want that - browsers choke over some compressed files, even though they say they won't. IE doesn't like compressed javascript.

text/html and text/plain should be the only ones used.

Hmmmmm ....

Then what happens when an HTML page (either static or generated by a script) contains javascript? Wouldn't the content-type text/html result in the full page getting compressed, including the javascript?

Inline JS is mostly Ok. It's externally included files, i.e. script src.

Same goes with CSS.

Hey someone else is talking mod_gzip Been running this for some time now without any issues or problems. Here is my complete configuration as it is listed in my httpd.conf file.

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t %r %>s %b mod_gzip: %{mod_gzip_compression_ratio}npct$
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t %r %>s %b mod_gzip: %{mod_gzip_result}n In:%{mod_gzip$
CustomLog logs/gzip.log common_with_mod_gzip_info2

mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_temp_dir /tmp
mod_gzip_keep_workfiles No
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_minimum_file_size 1002
mod_gzip_maximum_file_size 0
mod_gzip_maximum_inmem_size 60000

mod_gzip_item_include file .htm$
mod_gzip_item_include file .txt$
mod_gzip_item_include mime text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime httpd/unix-directory
mod_gzip_item_exclude file .css
mod_gzip_item_exclude file .js

Thanks, Charles and 1QuickSI , that clarifies things.