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Using gzip encoding in Apache without mod_gzip or mod_deflate

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 2, 2009

[ Thanks to Peter
for this link. ]

“If you run a dynamic site, with PHP for example, you
can’t compress the HTML file itself but you can compress Javascript
and Style Sheets files.

“First we need to download our website to our local machine, use
your favorite FTP client and download it to a directory of your
choice, in this article I’ll be downloading it to /d1/websites/ in
the directory blog If you happen to use the FileZilla FTP client
you don’t have to download everything, you can setup a filter which
will allow you to only download .js and .css files.”


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