How do I gzip my web files

Question

As prescribed by Yahoo!, gzip\'ng files would make your websites load faster. The problem? I don\'t know how :p

Answer 1

Edit your httpd.conf file.

Add this line to load the module:

LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so

Add these lines to actually compress the output:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/html application/x-javascript application/javascript
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html