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

Jetty will look for gzip'd versions of static files, as well as it has a GzipFilter for dynamic content.

You could probably pull the GzipFilter over into Tomcat if you wanted more control over compression than just Tomcat's connector-level compression...

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/GZIP+Compression

Answer 2

Edit your httpd.conf file.

Add this line to load the module:

LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so

Add these lines to actually compress the output:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/html application/x-javascript application/javascript
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

Answer 3

Seeing how most answers here are almost 5 years old, here's some very current and up to date example references.

For example server configs that enable gzip/deflate type compression for iis, lighthttpd, nginx, and even node see: https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs

For a very good current implementation of Apache mod_deflate see https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/.htaccess#L156