mod_deflate not working; am I missing a step?

GoWilkes

• March 16, 2014 19:22

I'm moving from an old server to a new one. In setting up the new server, one of my first steps was recompiling Apache with all of the usual modules, including mod_deflate. I'm getting ready to make the new server live, but I did a Gzip compression test, here: [url=http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php]GIDZipTest: Web Page Compression (Deflate / Gzip) Test - GIDNetwork and it comes back as not compressed. I looked in /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf, and there's no mention of "deflate". But there's no mention of it in the httpd.conf file on my old server, either, which IS compressed. Am I missing a step? Or is it not compressing because the domain is pinging the old server, and then the DNS records redirect it to the new server (making the old server a proxy)?

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  kdean

  • March 17, 2014 08:48

  When you login on the cPanel side for the site's account, do you have it enabled under the "Optimize Website" icon?

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 17, 2014 18:39

  Hello :) Here is a snippet from our documentation on Mod_Deflate: [QUOTE]EasyApache enables mod_deflate by default, but you must enable compression for each individual web site. You can enable compression for an individual web site with the Optimize Website (Home >> Software/Services >> Optimize Website) interface in cPanel.
  Thank you.

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  dalem

  • March 18, 2014 02:41

  if you want to set all domains to use mod_deflate add to Apache include [QUOTE]SetOutputFilter DEFLATE # Don"t compress images SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary # Make sure proxies don"t deliver the wrong content Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
  

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