Comments on: How to compress .php, .css and .js files without mod_gzip or mod_deflate

By: Eshban Bahadur

Eshban Bahadur — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:53:54 +0000

The rule:
ReWriteCond %{HTTP:accept-encoding} gzip

not works on https pages. I have even test it by changing HTTP to HTTPS but nothing works. Any suggestion?

By: Korbinus

Korbinus — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 08:17:44 +0000

I wrote a little piece of code letting people compressing css/js on the fly with PHP:

Some explications: http://korbinus.geotruc.net/blog/?p=431
Project page: https://github.com/korbinus/rsc

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:09:58 +0000

Thanks a lot. It works.

By: Moris

Moris — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 10:06:15 +0000

There is a tool to check if your compression really works as intended
siteloadtest.com

By: Steupz

Steupz — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:45:31 +0000

That GoDaddy gzip code never works on my site. Serves up a page with text code. Might be a plugin conflict.

By: Raj Karun

Raj Karun — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 05:50:20 +0000

Hi I read several blogs and articles and this one actually solved my problem.
There were actually 40 .js files in my web directory and used 7zip and the htaccess code its working great. I had a doubt while going through the code. It is very clearly explained in the htaccess code that we first check if the browser accepts Gzip file and then we send the Gzip file, in that case why should we specifically exclude browsers. Sorry if this is a stupid/blunt question.
Raj

By: Pavel

Pavel — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:36:07 +0000

I was trying to implement the solution for gzipping css and js files on godaddy, and it worked (gzipped file was served instead of normal), except for one problem: Firefox / chrome could not decompress the files outputting half-decompressed contents, so js stopped working completely. I used 7zip compressor (Gzip, method: deflate) to compress the files. I was so happy to see my jquery 1.3 downloading as 18kb file, but then disappointed to see js not working at all. Any idea why this could be happening?

The site is on shared hosting account with goDaddy, so there is no other option for compression js files.