Compression and cache

[qimqim]

Hi

I've placed the following code at the very end of my htaccess file but it does not do anything..

According to JustHost mod_deflate is enabled

# 5 Set Expires Headers
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">
Header set Expires "Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:00:00 GMT"
</FilesMatch>

# 6 Set the cache-control max-age
# 1 year
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=31449600, public"
</FilesMatch>
# 2 DAYS
<FilesMatch "\.(xml|txt)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=172800, public, must-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>
# 4 HOURS
<FilesMatch "\.(html|htm)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=14400, must-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>


#7 compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

Any help appreciated.

Thank you

[phranque]

try using mod_expires:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_expires.html [httpd.apache.org]

[qimqim]

I don't know if it's enabled, but my main problem at the moment is the compression, as I don't know if the cache is working or not.

Do you know how I can check that?

Thank you phranque

[phranque]

these are the compression-related directives i typically use:

# Various rewrite rules.
 RewriteEngine on

# Rules to serve gzip-compressed CSS and JS files.
# Requires both mod_rewrite and mod_headers to be enabled.
#
# If the client accepts gzip and compressed CSS and JS files exist, internally rewrite and serve them with
# proper Content-Type headers and set the no-gzip variable to prevent double-encoding
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.gz -s
RewriteCond $2->text/css ^css->(.+)$ [OR]
RewriteCond $2->text/javascript ^js->(.+)$
RewriteRule ^(.+\.(css|js))$ $1.gz [T=%1,E=no-gzip:1,L]


# compress these text/* MIME types
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css text/javascript application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xhtml+xml application/json


# server proper headers for precompressed css & javascript
<FilesMatch "\.(css|js)\.gz$">
# Serve correct encoding type.
Header append Content-Encoding gzip

# [Vary: Accept-Encoding] means a proxy server will cache both gzipped and uncompressed versions and serve the correct version based on the Accept-Encoding request header
# [Vary: User-Agent] means a proxy server will cache both gzipped and uncompressed versions and serve the correct version based on the User-Agent request header
# No Vary headers should be sent for MSIE-sourced requests

# Force proxies to cache gzipped & non-gzipped css/js files separately.
Header append Vary "Accept-Encoding"
Header append Vary "User-Agent"
BrowserMatch "MSIE" force-no-vary
</FilesMatch>


# server proper headers for uncompressed css & javascript
<FilesMatch "\.(css|js)$">

# [Vary: User-Agent] means a proxy server will cache both gzipped and uncompressed versions and serve the correct version based on the User-Agent request header
# No Vary headers should be sent for MSIE-sourced requests

# Force proxies to cache gzipped & non-gzipped css/js files separately.
Header append Vary "User-Agent"
BrowserMatch "MSIE" force-no-vary
</FilesMatch>

[phranque]

one way to check if the cache is working is to use the Live HTTP Headers FF plugin and check the HTTP Request and Response headers with a clear cache and again with a primed cache.

[qimqim]

Hi, I'm waiting for JustHost to answer a couple of questions about what they have installed, but they already told me that gzip is not recommended beacuse being a shared IP they sometimes have to turn it off if someone misbehaves.

I'll come back on this

Thanks

[qimqim]

Hi

I've finally got a reply from the host. Yes the mod_deflate is installed but it has a "c" in front. What does that mean?

mod_deflate.c

[phranque]

that means the module is written in C.

[qimqim]

Hi phranque

Does that mean I cannot use it, or do that I need a different code format to the one above? I'm refrerring now to mod_deflate

[qimqim]

Hi, again

I've placed this in the htaccees file

<ifModule mod_deflate.c>
<filesMatch "\.(js|css|html|php)$">
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</filesMatch>
</ifModule>

and this result in

http://www.microsoft.com/search/tools/default.aspx

HTTP compression and conditional GET results

URL: http://example.net

HTTP status code: 304 Not Modified

HTTP conditional GET: enabled
HTTP compression: not enabled (HTTP compression can be enabled for non-304 URLs)

HTTP headers:
Connection: Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=10, max=30
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Cache-Control: max-age=864000
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:05:32 GMT
Expires: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:05:32 GMT
Server: Apache

I don't understand the difference between

HTTP conditional GET: enabled
HTTP compression: not enabled

Could you explain, plesae, if compression is enabled or not?

What I am after is html compression.