How do I gzip my web files

Question

As prescribed by Yahoo!, gzip\'ng files would make your websites load faster. The problem? I don\'t know how :p

Answer 1

If you are running Java Tomcat then you set a few properties on your Connector ( in conf/server.xml ).

Specifically you set:

1. compressableMimeType ( what types to compress )
2. compression ( off | on | )
3. noCompressionUserAgents ( if you don't want certain agents to receive gzip, list them here )

Here's the tomcat documentation which discusses this: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/http.html