Gzip Compression not working

.htaccess compression gzip yslow
user1593330 picture user1593330 · Nov 4, 2012 · Viewed 9.4k times · Source

I have a website in which Yslow saying You need to Compress the Components with gzip.

So i have found the below information in my apache response when i echo phpinfo() as my test.php file.

SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/2.2.17 (Win32) PHP/5.3.5 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate gzip compression enabled

_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING"] gzip, deflate

And then i followed this tutorial and copied and pasted the below code to my .htaccess file.

<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_keep_workfiles No
mod_gzip_can_negotiate Yes
mod_gzip_add_header_count Yes
mod_gzip_send_vary Yes
mod_gzip_command_version '/mod_gzip_status'
mod_gzip_min_http 1000
mod_gzip_minimum_file_size 300
mod_gzip_maximum_file_size 512000
mod_gzip_maximum_inmem_size 60000
mod_gzip_handle_methods GET POST
mod_gzip_temp_dir /tmp
mod_gzip_item_include file \.html$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.php$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.pl$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.rb$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.py$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.cgi$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.css$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.js$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/javascript$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^httpd/unix-directory$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^server-status$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^server-info$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^application/x-httpd-php
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
</IfModule>

but it does not make any difference as i m still getting the file compression error as YSlow recommends .

I have also tried some other scripts by referring some other pages tutorials without any success.

Please can anybody give me solution how to solve this ?

Answer

Wireblue picture Wireblue · Nov 5, 2012

Try this:

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript text/css text/html text/xml
</IfModule>

Also, clear your browser's cache and restart the browser to ensure it's not caching the non-gzip'd response.

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