I'm not sure if this is the correct place or not, I think it is. I
checked with my hosting provider and mod_deflate (Apache hosting) is
not available on my setup. I'd like to compress (ex: gzip index.html)
some of the files for better load times. I should clean up the site
and make the pages smaller but that's not going to happen any time
soon. If I compress the file (except already compressed file such as
..png, .jpeg, .gif and .zip files, for example) will I lock out any of
the users of popular browsers?

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http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site
http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog
Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

Neil Cherry wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is the correct place or not, I think it is. I
> checked with my hosting provider and mod_deflate (Apache hosting) is
> not available on my setup. I'd like to compress (ex: gzip index.html)
> some of the files for better load times. I should clean up the site
> and make the pages smaller but that's not going to happen any time
> soon. If I compress the file (except already compressed file such as
> .png, .jpeg, .gif and .zip files, for example) will I lock out any of
> the users of popular browsers?

How do you propose to compress them without mod_deflate?

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http://blog.dorward.me.uk/

On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:06:41 +0100, David Dorward wrote:
> Neil Cherry wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if this is the correct place or not, I think it is. I
>> checked with my hosting provider and mod_deflate (Apache hosting) is
>> not available on my setup. I'd like to compress (ex: gzip index.html)
>> some of the files for better load times. I should clean up the site
>> and make the pages smaller but that's not going to happen any time
>> soon. If I compress the file (except already compressed file such as
>> .png, .jpeg, .gif and .zip files, for example) will I lock out any of
>> the users of popular browsers?
>
> How do you propose to compress them without mod_deflate?

Actually part of the answer was easy but not the second part. I'd
simply gzip index.html (resultant: index.html.gz) before hand but the
Apache server won't serve up the file as it would with index.html. So
calling http://www.linuxha.com/ wouldn't get you the index.html.gz
file. I've currently abandoned this idea.

--
Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com
http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site
http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog
Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

Neil Cherry <njc@.uucp> writes:

>> How do you propose to compress them without mod_deflate?
>
> Actually part of the answer was easy but not the second part. I'd
> simply gzip index.html (resultant: index.html.gz) before hand but the
> Apache server won't serve up the file as it would with index.html. So
> calling http://www.linuxha.com/ wouldn't get you the index.html.gz
> file. I've currently abandoned this idea.

That's definitely possible with apache.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/con...gotiation.html

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On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:10:19 +0200, Joost Diepenmaat wrote:
> Neil Cherry <njc@.uucp> writes:
>
>>> How do you propose to compress them without mod_deflate?
>>
>> Actually part of the answer was easy but not the second part. I'd
>> simply gzip index.html (resultant: index.html.gz) before hand but the
>> Apache server won't serve up the file as it would with index.html. So
>> calling http://www.linuxha.com/ wouldn't get you the index.html.gz
>> file. I've currently abandoned this idea.
>
> That's definitely possible with apache.
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/con...gotiation.html
>

I'll check into that, thanks!

For those running on Apache 2.0:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/con...gotiation.html

I like that about Apache, if you find 1.3 documentation you usually
can change the 1.3 to 2.0 and find the correct documentation for
that Apache. :-)

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Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com
http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site
http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog
Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Neil Cherry wrote:

> So calling http://www.linuxha.com/ wouldn't get you the index.html.gz

Options +Multiviews

Neil Cherry <njc@.uucp> wrote:
> Actually part of the answer was easy but not the second part. I'd
> simply gzip index.html (resultant: index.html.gz) beforehand [...]

You need to include index.html.gz in the DirectoryIndex list.

You may also need to enable content negotiation.

Finally, within your website, refer to files (e.g page.html, image.jpg)
in links without extensions (i.e. "page" or "image") and let Apache find
the appropriate ".html" ".html.gz", "jpg" suffix itself.

Chris