How to turn off gzip

breaking flash preloaders

[StoutFiles]

Gzip is not letting some newer flash files load on my sites...apparently gzip will break some preloaders on IE.

How can I turn off gzip from DirectAdmin?

[StoutFiles]

Just used an .htaccess file instead, never mind.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule . - [E=no-gzip:1]

[jdMorgan]

You could make it more selective in order to allow other files to be compressed:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule \.flv$ - [E=no-gzip:1]

Jim

[StoutFiles]

I just put the .htaccess in a ".swf-only" folder. That is useful to know for the future, though.

[jdMorgan]

See also SetEnv:

 SetEnv no-gzip 

is equivalent.

Jim

[Caterham]

SetEnv no-gzip
is equivalent.

And

SetEnvIf Request_URI \.flv$ no-gzip

is eq. to the rewrite rule checking for .flv but without creating overhead; or, to avoid regular expressions completely by using a simple wildcard matching

<Files *.flv>
SetEnv no-gzip 
</Files>

One important thing about mod_rewrite - you can see that esp. on IRC - is to know when not to use the module. The intention of the module was not to replace all other directives for the cost of performance but for doing things other simple directives can't do.