IKnowFooBar :: Giles Smith » apache2 http://www.iknowfoobar.co.uk A developer's [mis] take? Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:52:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Reduce your bandwidth bills using Apache’s page compression http://www.iknowfoobar.co.uk/2008/08/20/reduce-your-bandwidth-bills-using-apaches-page-compression/ http://www.iknowfoobar.co.uk/2008/08/20/reduce-your-bandwidth-bills-using-apaches-page-compression/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:22:33 +0000 Giles Smith http://www.pureroon.co.uk/?p=274 By using the mod_deflate (link) module of apache you can quite easily reduce a 30k page down to 3k worth of transmitted data, and guess what it is extremely simple to enable!

To enable the module (apache2) try something like:

# cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/
# ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/deflate.load .

Then add the following line to your apache.conf

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml

Now restart apache and all plain text, html, and xml files should be compressed before being sent to the client.

Easy!

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