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Edward
Edward

Reputation: 4651

Why does gzip compression not work for files processed by PHP?

I have two files named test.html and test.php on my server, having the same content:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8"/>
  <title>TEMPLATE</title>
</head>
<body>

  TEXT

</body>
</html>

Besides that I have a .htaccess-files with the following content:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.(php3|php4|php5|php6|html|htm) $1\.php

AddType x-mapp-php5.5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5.5 .php

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
</Ifmodule>

Requesting test.html returns the following headers:

Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 08:32:04 GMT
Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=200
Server: Apache
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
x-powered-by: PHP/5.5.36

After uncommenting the rewrite part (thus using HTML without beeing processed by PHP), the response headers are:

Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 186
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 08:42:22 GMT
Etag: "xxxxxxxx-xx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=200
Last-Modified: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 08:42:03 GMT
Server: Apache
Vary: Accept-Encoding

It's exactly the same content and exactly the same header, but why is the content not compressed, when it is returned by PHP?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 297

Answers (1)

apokryfos
apokryfos

Reputation: 40730

Add the following line in your .htaccess

php_value zlib.output_compression 1

to enable PHP output compression.

More information at http://php.net/manual/en/zlib.configuration.php#ini.zlib.output-compression

Upvotes: 2

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