Question

I am creating GZip compression using .htaccess. I am using following code to gzip te js, css files

<ifModule mod_gzip.c>
  mod_gzip_on Yes
  mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
  mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
  mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
  mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
  mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
  mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
  mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
</ifModule>

but it cannot gzip my files on server. Please let me know about the code for gzip compression

Thanks

Answer 1

It’s probably the case that you don’t have mod_gzip installed since you’re using Apache 2.2, they’ve moved to use mod_deflate instead.

The mod_deflate docs gives you a few sample configurations, but it looks like you’d want something like:

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