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Sarah Ogbonna
Sarah Ogbonna

Reputation: 189

How do I enable mod_Gzip on Apache 2.2.17?

I'm working on windows7 64bit env.How should I enable gzip module on apache 2.2.17? And what are differences between mod_deflate and mod_gzip? thanks

Upvotes: 5

Views: 32418

Answers (4)

Stan S.
Stan S.

Reputation: 277

Also note that mod_filter needs to be loaded as well as mod_deflate (due to both being commented out by default):

LoadModule filter_module modules/mod_filter.so
LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so

Like the previous comment: After that just add following to the httpd.conf:

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE 
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript

Tested on: Apache/2.4.10

Note: mod_filter is required in 2.4, although in 2.2 that may not be the case.

Upvotes: 6

Serga
Serga

Reputation: 253

mod_deflate module is shipped with Apache, but in order to use it, you should enable one in your httpd.conf file (it is initially commented out):

LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so

After that just add following to the httpd.conf:

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE 
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript

For more tuning refer, as was mentioned: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_deflate.html

Upvotes: 9

Karl-Bjørnar Øie
Karl-Bjørnar Øie

Reputation: 5572

You can enable it like this in your apache config file, or .htaccess file if enabled

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

See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html

Upvotes: 12

user562854
user562854

Reputation:

There is no mod_gzip for Apache 2.2x, as it is an Apache 1.3x module. Apache 2.2x has a only mod_deflate. GZip is the same DEFLATE plus a checksum and header/footer. As you can see here, Deflate is faster.

Upvotes: 9

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