While not being expert in web server maintenance it came as surprise to me that seemingly still in year 2011 default configuration of apache2 (nor tomcat6) isn’t enabling compression by default. Instead some manual tweaking is required.<\/p>\n
So steps are:<\/p>\n
Step 1:<\/strong> Append following into file Step 2:<\/strong> And add following block into file Repeat that for all vhosts.<\/p>\n Step 3:<\/strong> Step 4:<\/strong> GZip compression test<\/a><\/p>\n Done,,, for Apache2 part<\/strong><\/p>\n Then lets attack tomcat6 Step 1:<\/strong> This should to the trick Step 2:<\/strong> References:<\/strong> While not being expert in web server maintenance it came as surprise to me that seemingly still in year 2011 default configuration of apache2 (nor tomcat6) isn’t enabling compression by default. Instead some manual tweaking is required. So steps are: Step 1: [code] vim \/etc\/sysconfig\/apache2 [\/code] Append following into file [code] APACHE_MODULES=”… jk deflate” vim…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kari.world.ikari.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kari.world.ikari.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kari.world.ikari.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kari.world.ikari.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kari.world.ikari.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kari.world.ikari.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kari.world.ikari.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kari.world.ikari.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kari.world.ikari.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n[code]
\nvim \/etc\/sysconfig\/apache2
\n[\/code]<\/p>\n
\n[code]
\nAPACHE_MODULES=”… jk deflate”
\nvim \/etc\/apache2\/vhosts.d\/your-vhost.conf
\n[\/code]<\/p>\n
\nWe are not yet done
\n[code]
\nvim \/etc\/apache2\/vhosts.d\/your-vhost.conf
\n[\/code]<\/p>\n
\n[code]
\n
\n SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
\n BrowserMatch ^Mozilla\/4\\.0[678] no-gzip
\n BrowserMatch \\bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text\/html
\n # Don’t compress images
\n SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \\.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
\n <\/Location>
\n[\/code]<\/p>\n
\nAnd finally restart apache
\n[code]
\n\/etc\/init.d\/apache2 restart
\n[\/code]<\/p>\n
\nAnd test if compression is now working<\/p>\n
\n…<\/p>\n
\nEnable compression in config file
\n[code]
\nvim \/opt\/tomcat6\/conf\/server.xml
\n[\/code]<\/p>\n
\n[code]
\n
\n ….
\n
\n[\/code]<\/p>\n
\nRestart server
\n[code]
\n\/opt\/tomcat6\/bin\/catalina.sh stop
\n\/opt\/tomcat6\/bin\/catalina.sh start
\n[\/code]<\/p>\n
\nApache2 gzip compression: How do I speed up my website download time?<\/a>
\nEnable GZIP compression in tomcat<\/a>
\nGZip compression test<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"