I always was aware that http supports gzip compression, but never cared about it. I counted on that the servers and shared hosts I use would have activated it by default (I’m more of a frontend developer). Now I discover, that none of them has it. So my question is why? Are there any downsides? … Read more
I tried to install and enable mod_gzip on apache server and downloaded mod_gzip from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-gzip/files/ When i try to install and type ./configure, i get ./configure: No such file or directory Answer The directory that you are currently in does not contain an executable file called configure. Why are you not using mod_deflate which is … Read more
i got a litte problem with gzip YSlow says: Grade F on Compress components with gzip There are 5 plain text components that should be sent compressed Page Speed says: Enable compression but its active in my .htaccess: this is my .htaccess RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.jgz -f RewriteRule (.*)\.js$ $1\.js.jgz [L] AddType … Read more
I’m trying to reset the DeflateBufferSize directive like so in my .htaccess file: DeflateBufferSize 1024 SetOutputFilter DEFLATE But the result of each page is then 500 internal server error (this happens even if I set it to its default value of 8096). If I remove that line everything’s fine. Why is this happening, do I … Read more
I am trying to install the latest apache ant to centos. I did as follows: wget http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi/apache-ant-1.8.2-bin.tar.gz gzip -d apache-ant-1.8.2-bin.tar.gz and I get the error as follows: gunzip: apache-ant-1.8.2-bin.tar.gz: not in gzip format However If do as follows: Download the tar.gz file from the GUI to a desktop folder Open up a terminal, navigate to … Read more
I gzipped a folder in an old server that included all of the sites served. That server does not exist anymore and I needed some info from the backup but when I extract the backup (a 26GB file) I only get a 28GB blank file that says “Document” under OSX and no program says it’s … Read more
I am trying to tar a huge directory (with about 600GB) and sometimes my SSH conection drops and I need to execute the tar code again and my linux overwites the previous file beginning all the tar again. Is there some parameter that allows my tar file to be resumed after some problem? Answer Is … Read more
I’m trying to configure GZip on my nginx server. It works for files with an file-extension. To make a decision what kind of file is served over the network, Nginx does not analyze the file contents … Instead, it just looks up the file extension to determine its MIME type So when I have a … Read more
I have a Rails app using the Rails javascript helpers to concat all the javascript together into a single file. In addition my web server is serving this javascript file to the end users as gzip compressed. As modern browsers will request the compressed version – is there any real benefit to me bothering to … Read more
We’ve been running lighttpd on our image servers for quite some time, but in an effort to speed up page load times, we’ve been working toward using mod_compress and etags to speed things up. I’ve added the following lines to the config: server.modules = ( “mod_compress” ) #… etag.use-mtime = “enable” etag.use-inode = “disable” static-file.etags … Read more
