Cannot enable gzip compression

[bennieblanco]

I read this post https://www.litespeedtech.com/support/forum/threads/solved-cannot-enable-gzip-compression.7292/

and have same issue.

php 7.0.11
litespeed 5.1.15

my gzip config

http://prntscr.com/f455hs

zlib.output_compression = on

but gzip is still not working

Any help is appreciated.

 

[bennieblanco]

it is still wildcard issue ,
I added

text/*, application/x-javascript, application/xml, application/javascript, text/css, text/javascript, text/js

and it started working , but still singeling out some files like style.css?ver=1.0.0

not seeing it as CSS

 

[NiteWave]

can you give a link which gzip not working ? see if its size is below 300 bytes or anything else.

 

[bennieblanco]

Thnx for the reply!

yes the size is below 300B, one file js file has only this

{"fragments":{"div.widget_shopping_cart_content":"<div class=\"widget_shopping_cart_content\">\r\n<ul class=\"cart_list product_list_widget \">\r\n\r\n\t\r\n\t\t<li class=\"empty\">No products in the cart.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\t\r\n<\/ul><!-- end product list -->\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>"},"cart_hash":""}

and one css file is 186B

 

[bennieblanco]

but none of them work if I dont add

 text/css, text/javascript, text/js

to mimes

 

[bennieblanco]

duhh! it says right there

http://prntscr.com/f4cppt

300B min

ok il change that and test but what about the wild card issue?

 

[NiteWave]

can you be more specific about "wild card issue" ?

 

[bennieblanco]

the original mime types are this

text/*, application/x-javascript, application/xml, application/javascript

meaning text/* ( any ) ,

if I leave the default css and js files are not gziped ,

so I had to add my own in order to get the css/js gziped

text/*, application/x-javascript, application/xml, application/javascript, text/html, text/css, text/plain, text/xml, text/x-js, text/js, text/javascript

 

[NiteWave]

now I got clear about the issue.
I did a test on a 1.6kb litespeed.min-170317.css file ( can get it from https://www.litespeedtech.com/templates/litespeed/css/litespeed.min-170317.css)
Compressible Types is the default:

text/*,application/x-javascript,application/javascript,application/xml, image/svg+xml

(without text/css)
when I access it in Chrome, it shows:

Content-Encoding:gzip
Content-Length:9579

this is correct as expected.
so unfortunately I can't simply reproduce the issue you encountered.

 

[NiteWave]

update:
https://www.litespeedtech.com/support/forum/threads/solved-compressed-xml-request.14941/#post-97599

 

[bennieblanco]

So we need to list them now? Looks like the description for text/* should be changed in admin since we all expect the wildcard to work.

 

[Unique_Eric]

Generally, if e.g. text/js can not find in

$SERVER_ROOT/conf/mime.properties

then text/* not include it, you still need to add by yourself.

 

[joviermark]

In terms of availability, 7zip is widely available across UNIX (Linux/BSD/MacOS) and Windows systems. Therefore a zip file is highly portable. xz and 7zip are known to have a better compression algorithm than gzip, but use more memory and time to compress/decompress. when backing up I would recommend tar.7z as it has the highest compression rate saving you space but uses an extra program (7zip). .tar.gz will be larger files and do the same job, you could also use bzip (.tar.bz/bz2) although i'm not sure if that would suit you better as I use gzip or 7zip