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Re: Questions on compressing web files David Dorward 04-05-2008
Posted by David Dorward on April 5, 2008, 1:06 pm
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 Neil Cherry wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is the correct place or not, I think it is. I
> checked with my hosting provider and mod_deflate (Apache hosting) is
> not available on my setup. I'd like to compress (ex: gzip index.html)
> some of the files for better load times. I should clean up the site
> and make the pages smaller but that's not going to happen any time
> soon. If I compress the file (except already compressed file such as
> .png, .jpeg, .gif and .zip files, for example) will I lock out any of
> the users of popular browsers?

How do you propose to compress them without mod_deflate?

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Posted by Joost Diepenmaat on April 5, 2008, 8:10 pm
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>> How do you propose to compress them without mod_deflate?
>
> Actually part of the answer was easy but not the second part. I'd
> simply gzip index.html (resultant: index.html.gz) before hand but the
> Apache server won't serve up the file as it would with index.html. So
> calling http://www.linuxha.com/ wouldn't get you the index.html.gz
> file. I've currently abandoned this idea.

That's definitely possible with apache.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/content-negotiation.html

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Posted by Chris Davies on April 11, 2008, 3:58 am
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> Actually part of the answer was easy but not the second part. I'd
> simply gzip index.html (resultant: index.html.gz) beforehand [...]

You need to include index.html.gz in the DirectoryIndex list.

You may also need to enable content negotiation.

Finally, within your website, refer to files (e.g page.html, image.jpg)
in links without extensions (i.e. "page" or "image") and let Apache find
the appropriate ".html" ".html.gz", "jpg" suffix itself.

Chris

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