Enable gzip on my account.

[publicpack41]

I have tried several ways to enable gzip to compress my large html and php files but none seem to work. Is there something i need to enable or do in order for a file to be compressed and sent to the recipient?

 

[Gouri]

I have tried several ways to enable gzip to compress my large html and php files but none seem to work. Is there something i need to enable or do in order for a file to be compressed and sent to the recipient?

Add this to your .htaccess

# compress the files
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript application/x-javascript
# removes some bugs
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Header append Vary User-Agent

 

[callumacrae]

Please note that enabling gzip will also mean you also use more resources. If you get suspended for high resource usage you should disable gzip again.

~Callum

 

[publicpack41]

Hello

I tried the aforementioned method but after testing whether a gzip file is sent when querying my address I still get the normal html and php files. Maybe there is something with the server i am using 'chopin' which disables gzip.

 

[callumacrae]

Yes, you will still get the html and php files. What are you actually trying to do?

Enabling gzip will just make the files smaller.

~Callum

 

[publicpack41]

I have 4 100KB html files and they take long to load in the page and therefore i want them to be sent over to the end user compressed so it doesn't take long for the page to load. I tested the html files using http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php but it comes up as not compressed

 

[Gouri]

I have 4 100KB html files and they take long to load in the page and therefore i want them to be sent over to the end user compressed so it doesn't take long for the page to load. I tested the html files using http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php but it comes up as not compressed

The tool checks the php compressions

add this to your header file.

<? ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); ?>

Then check