Hi there
I’m having a few problems enabling gzip compression. This is the error I get:
Gzip is not working properly:
– Your server may not have the “deflate” module enabled (mod_deflate for Apache, ngx_http_gzip_module for NGINX).
– Contact your host. If deflate is enabled, ask why all .htaccess or nginx.conf compression rules are not being applied.
If re-checking and restarting does not resolve, please check with your host or open a support ticket with us.
I emailed Blacknight who host fireblock.ie and got an email saying:
Hi there,
I can confirm GZip compression would be enabled server side for fireblock.ie
You would now need to call the required content in your code to use the GZip compression/tell it what to compress via your coding. You may have seen already but please see the following
https://help.blacknight.com/entries/35604491-GZIP-Compression-Deflate-Linux-Shared-Hosting
You would need to install a caching plugin that is compatible with GZIP compression/mod_deflate to function with dynamic content/urls
So I added the code they suggested to .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# Compress HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Text, XML and fonts
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
# Remove browser bugs (only needed for really old browsers)
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Header append Vary User-Agent
</IfModule>
but nothing changed.
I also added in the code you suggested to .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
SetEnvIfNoCase ^(Accept-EncodXng|X-cept-Encoding|X{15}|~{15}|-{15})$ ^((gzip|deflate)s*,?s*)+|[X~-]{4,13}$ HAVE_Accept-Encoding
RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding “gzip,deflate” env=HAVE_Accept-Encoding
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_filter.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE “application/atom+xml”
“application/javascript”
“application/json”
“application/ld+json”
“application/manifest+json”
“application/rdf+xml”
“application/rss+xml”
“application/schema+json”
“application/vnd.geo+json”
“application/vnd.ms-fontobject”
“application/x-font-ttf”
“application/x-font-opentype”
“application/x-font-truetype”
“application/x-javascript”
“application/x-web-app-manifest+json”
“application/xhtml+xml”
“application/xml”
“font/eot”
“font/opentype”
“font/otf”
“image/bmp”
“image/svg+xml”
“image/vnd.microsoft.icon”
“image/x-icon”
“text/cache-manifest”
“text/css”
“text/html”
“text/javascript”
“text/plain”
“text/vcard”
“text/vnd.rim.location.xloc”
“text/vtt”
“text/x-component”
“text/x-cross-domain-policy”
“text/xml”
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
AddEncoding gzip svgz
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
but still nothing.
do you mind taking a look when you have a moment
Thank you!