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Oliver Spiesshofer

2005-01-20, 5:59 pm

hi,

I am running apache 2.0.50 on a Windows XP machine.
I would like to enable mod_deflate for a php-driven website.

The directives I put into the httpd.conf seem to work sine apache starts up
fine, but I am not sure if the output is compressed or not.
I got the link to a website (leknor.com) that can check it, but my server
is intranet-only so I cannot access it from the internet to see if the
compression is working with that tool.

I have the following setup:

LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so

and in the <VirtualHost *>
I have a
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

Is that enough at all? What else do I need? The page is displayed with IE
and Opera just fine, but how do I know its compressed?
I am using AwStats as a logfile analyzer, and it has a section to show
compression ratio of files, but the fields for that stay empty, so I assume
that something is not working right

thanks for the help.

Oliver


Alvaro G Vicario

2005-01-20, 5:59 pm

*** Oliver Spiesshofer wrote/escribió (Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:56:56 GMT):
> Is that enough at all? What else do I need? The page is displayed with IE
> and Opera just fine, but how do I know its compressed?


Mozilla/Firefox have an extension called "Live HTTP Headers" which allow
you to see whether it's compressed. Response headers should contain:

Content-Encoding: gzip

Alternatively, you can telnet to port 80 and send commands by hand:

GET /whatever/file HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.com
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate


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HansH

2005-01-20, 5:59 pm

"Oliver Spiesshofer" <oliver@email.com> schreef in bericht
news:Xns95E4AC69417A9oliveremailcom@63.223.5.251...
> I am running apache 2.0.50 on a Windows XP machine.
> I would like to enable mod_deflate for a php-driven website.

Keep your php scripts from zipping their outpur for you ...

> I have a
> SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

As some (brand and versions of ) browsers fail on images, PDFfiles or
archives, if those are transfered zipped, rather use
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain text/html text/css
-add xml mime-types if you need them-

Now, your php scripts have to set the proper mime-type header to get DEFLATE
going.

> I am using AwStats as a logfile analyzer, and it has a section to show
> compression ratio of files, but the fields for that stay empty, so I

assume
> that something is not working right

Have the compression ratio logged
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mo...flatefilternote


HansH


Oliver Spiesshofer

2005-01-21, 7:51 am

"HansH" <hans@niet.op.het.net> wrote in
news:41efff99$0$6217$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl:

> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain text/html text/css


thanks, all this worked fine now!
I had some of the directives misplaced.

Oliver

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