Problem with gzip compression

[koraledrewniane]

Hi from Poland

I'm new in this forum. I run shop with ThirtyBees 1.0.3 cms and Warehouse theme from IqitCommerce on VPS - koraledrewniane.pl

Everything works great for me until i started my site seo optimization.

All my CCC settings are turned on. The problem is when i run page analysis on gtmetrics.com. Google Speed score says to enable gzip compression on two files: http://koraledrewniane.pl/themes/warehouse/cache/v57e9e488e51b540995632eae9d70d0811ball.css http://koraledrewniane.pl/themes/warehouse/cache/v41_b77e132c440c69afc28f0a38b7a71ef1.js

I have mod_deflate enabled on server.

What can be wrong?

[datakick]

your nginx (reverse proxy?) server is probably not configured correctly. You can read more about this here.

Note: If you use nginx in front of apache server then you don't need to have mod_deflate enabled on apache at all. That will have negative impact on overall performance. Let nginx gzip this instead.

[koraledrewniane]

Thanks @datakick for the answear. I'll read about that.

[koraledrewniane]

@datakick this is content of my nginx.conf file:

user nginx;

worker_processes auto; pid /var/run/nginx.pid;

error_log logs/error.log;

error_log logs/error.log notice;

error_log logs/error.log info;

events { include /etc/nginx/nginx-events.conf; } http { include /etc/nginx/mime.types; # For user configurations not maintained by DirectAdmin. Empty by default. include /etc/nginx/nginx-includes.conf;

and my nginx-gzip.conf file: gzip on; gzipstatic always; gzipdisable "msie6"; gziphttpversion 1.1; gzipvary on; gzipcomplevel 8; gzipproxied any; gziptypes text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript application/javascript text/x-js image/svg+xml; gzipbuffers 16 8k; gzipminlenght 256;

Everything seems to be ok.

[datakick]

try to set gzip_http_version 1.0, or alternatively gzip_http_version 1.0 - this could help, according to this article

[koraledrewniane]

Setting gziphttpversion 1.0 doesn't change anything, still the same problem.

[datakick]

I've just tried your configuration on my test server and it works just fine.

Well, what strange is that there's a typo in gzip_min_lenght that needed to be fixed first, otherwise nginx failed to restart. How come your server managed to restart with this typo in config file? Is the nginx-gzip.conf file actually included ? And did you actually restart nginx to reload settings?

[koraledrewniane]

Yes, there was a mistake. I had changed it to gzipminlength and of course restarted nginx. Gtmetrix still show the same problem with compression.

[koraledrewniane]

No, DirectAdmin, but i also have access by SSH.

[koraledrewniane]

The problem is solved. I forced my server administrator to resolve it. He removed this lines from .htaccess:

<IfModule mod_deflate.c> <IfModule mod_filter.c> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript font/ttf application/x-font-ttf font/otf application/x-font-otf font/opentype </IfModule> </IfModule>

and add this: ``` # compress html, css, javascript, text, xml and fonts AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml 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

# you can also compress by file type/extension:
<files *.html>
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</files>

```

I dont't know why but it works.

[andreausa]

Thank you for the information.

[Pedalman]

Mh, that is good news but I also would be interested in an explanation. Perhaps you could ask the admin while also saying thank you to him :)

[lesley]

It has to do with using older Apache versions. The older versions will not take multiple arguments like the new does.

[Pedalman]

Thank you Lesley.