Enabling gzip compression for Jboss

Question

How is gzip compression for Jboss 5.1.0 enabled?

Within the tomcat http connector right? I cant remember where this file is stored, server.xml?

Answer 1

The file is under server.xml and you are correct in stating that you have to updated the http connector.

Following link is info for tomcat, but same applies to JBoss except location of server.xml file. I believe you need to update the server.xml under deploy\jbossweb.sar\

http://viralpatel.net/blogs/2008/11/enable-gzip-compression-in-tomcat.html

Answer 2

edit jboss\server\default\deploy\jbossweb.sar\server.xml

Edit this:

<Connector protocol="HTTP/1.1" port="8080" address="${jboss.bind.address}" 
           connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443" />

to be more like this:

<Connector protocol="HTTP/1.1" port="8080" address="${jboss.bind.address}" compression="on" 
compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/css,text/javascript, application/x-javascript,application/javascript" 
connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443" />

You can refer to connector config info for further details please see: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/http.html

Answer 3

To add gzip compression in JBoss 7.1.1, you can edit standalone/configuration/standalone.xml and add:

       ...
    </extensions>

    <system-properties>
        <property name="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol.COMPRESSION" value="on"/>
        <property name="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol.COMPRESSION_MIME_TYPES" value="text/javascript,text/css,text/html"/>
    </system-properties>

Restart the server and check with developer tools or in the HTTP header if it is enabled.