Best way to compress HTML, CSS & JS with mod_deflate and mod_gzip disabled

Question

I have a few sites on a shared host that is running Apache 2. I would like to compress the HTML, CSS and Javascript that is delivered to the browser. The host has disabled mod_d

Answer 1

What I do:

• I place scripts in a js and stylesheets in a css dir, respectively.

• In the Apache configuration, I add directives like so:

  
      AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .js
      php_value auto_prepend_file gzip-js.php
      php_flag zlib.output_compression On
  
  
      AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .css
      php_value auto_prepend_file gzip-css.php
      php_flag zlib.output_compression On
  
  

• gzip-js.php in the js directory looks like this:

• …and gzip-cs.php in the css directory looks like this:

This may not be the most elegant solution, but it most certainly is a simple one that requires few changes and works well.