How do I enable gzip on Dreamhost?

Question

I would like to compress all css and js on my Dreamhost site, I have found suggestions on the web but none of them work. Does anyone have a working example of gzip running on a Dreamhost site?

Unterwalden

Answer 1

This thread on the Dreamhost support forum looks like it has the info you want.

Catalinacatalo

The link wasn't completely correct, there's no .htaccess changes need (gzip is enabled by default apparently). So I just gzipped the files and removed the .gz extension from the files. – Unterwalden

Answer 2

I'm a bit late to the game here in 2012, but I think this is still relevant. The "mod_gzip" method does not work in Dreamhost's .htaccess files any more. They seem to be using mod_deflate instead.

I removed the mod_gzip block and added the following to my .htaccess file:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain application/javascript text/css

This did the trick for me. You can also add other file types here in case you have things like XML or JSON - or something that falls outside the norm.

I've gone back and updated the Dreamhost wiki page to add this.

Virginia

I also added image/svg+xml because Google PageSpeed insights was complaining about it. – Estabrook

Answer 3

I haven't tried this yet. But, it might work

<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
  mod_gzip_on       Yes
  mod_gzip_dechunk  Yes
  mod_gzip_item_include file      \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl|jpg|png|gif)$
  mod_gzip_item_include handler   ^cgi-script$
  mod_gzip_item_include mime      ^text/.*
  mod_gzip_item_include mime      ^application/x-javascript.*
  mod_gzip_item_exclude mime      ^image/.*
  mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
</IfModule>

Source: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Htaccess_tricks

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