mod-deflate

I've finally gotten a VPS hosting account set up this allows me to use mod_deflate and mod_header (of course). I'm attempting to make my site faster by YSlow's guidelines which include gzipping (via mod_deflate) the pages and setting a long expire header. What would the .htaccess code for this look like? I've seen various examples but I'm wondering what it would look like to fit those parameters. For example # Mod_deflate <IfModule mod_deflate.c> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript SetEnvIfNoCase Request

How can I disable mod_deflate in Apache2 For files in a specific directory OR For all files that have extension of, for example .py? You could set the environment variable no-gzip for that directory/type of file: # for URL paths that begin with "/foo/bar/" SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/foo/bar/ no-gzip=1 # for files that end with ".py" <FilesMatch \.py$> SetEnv no-gzip 1 </FilesMatch> Quote from: scottlinux.com Disable Compression : To disable compression in Apache, typically you just need to disable the module mod_deflate... Debian/Ubuntu: $ sudo a2dismod deflate Module deflate disabled. Run '/etc

I can't get my site to use gzip compression. I recently watched this video by Chris Coyier over at css-tricks.com. In the video, he talks about enabling gzip compression to make websites run faster. As per his instruction, I linked through to github via html5boilerplate.com, copied the gzip compression code from their .htaccess file, pasted it into my own, and uploaded it to my site. I've tested it via gzipwtf.com and it doesn't seem to work. Can anyone help me with this? My .htaccess file looks like this: # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Trim www # --