Page compression (gzip/deflate)

[zordon19]

How do you enable page compression?

I'm using the free x10hosting. I checked my site with an online page compression test and it says my page is not compressed. Then I checked http://forums.x10hosting.com with the same tool and it is compressed.

I tried to edit my .htaccess file a couple of times, adding some code that was supposed to enable the compression but with no success.

Can you help?

 

[ah-blabla]

Adding the line

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

in .htaccess should make apache compress content, but it doesn't seem to work for me either.

Another option is to tell php to encode content, which works here: this line has to be added at the beginning of your php file:

ob_start("ob_gzhandler");

However this only works for php files.

 

[zordon19]

This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks!