How can I enable keep-alive?

Question

I ran a Google Page Speed and it says I scored 57/100 because I need to \"Enable Keep-Alive\" and \"Enable Compression\". I did some Google searches but I c

Answer 1

Configure Apache KeepAlive settings

Open up apache’s configuration file and look for the following settings. On Centos this file is called httpd.conf and is located in /etc/httpd/conf. The following settings are noteworthy:

• KeepAlive: Switches KeepAlive on or off. Put in “KeepAlive on” to turn it on and “KeepAlive off” to turn it off.

• MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests a single persistent connection will service. A number between 50 and 75 would be plenty.

• KeepAliveTimeout: How long should the server wait for new requests from connected clients. The default is 15 seconds which is way too high. Set it to between 1 and 5 seconds to avoid having processes wasting RAM while waiting for requests.

Read more about benefits of keep alive connection here: http://abdussamad.com/archives/169-Apache-optimization:-KeepAlive-On-or-Off.html