Questions on compressing web files

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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Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry (AT) linuxha (DOT) com
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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David Dorward
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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 (AT) linuxha (DOT) com
http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site
http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog
Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies

Neil Cherry <njc (AT) cookie (DOT) 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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Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/

On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:10:19 +0200, Joost Diepenmaat wrote:

Neil Cherry <njc (AT) cookie (DOT) 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 (AT) linuxha (DOT) 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