How can I gzip my JavaScript and CSS files?

Question

I have a problem, I have to gzip a prototype Lib, but i totaly have no idea how to do this, where to start and how does it works. :)

I find some tutorials but that wasn\

Answer 1

I above example similar to this worked great but didn't compress javascript. I needed to add application/javascript.

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/xml text/css text/javascript application/javascript