Filed with Developers Add/Remove Optimize Website in Feature Manager [Case 3547]

[ChrisRHS]

Hello there,

Take a look at this blog post I made a while back, which allows you to turn it on globally:

SolidServers.ca » Blog Archive » How to enable mod_deflate globally in cPanel/WHM

[cPanelDon]

Hello,

I have just installed mod_deflate on my cpanel server and enabled it for all the accounts on the server. I would like to remove the Optimize website icon from the cpanel's interface of certain users, just to make impossible for them to play with this setting and ensure the compression remains always enabled. Is it possible? How?

At the present time the Feature Manager in WHM does not yet include Optimize Website; however, there is an active feature request to have it added.

Please see the following thread: WHM - Feature Manager - Add/Remove Optimize Website - cPanel Forums

[cPanelDon]

I have merged a few recent posts into this feature request thread as the discussions center around the same general topic about managing the ability to toggle Optimize Website for individual accounts.

[brasoveanul]

For all those of you that need a workaround, you unfortutately have to edit the theme you use, generally X3. Please read here: AddingIconsAndGroup < DeveloperResources < TWiki . Anyway, pretty strange solution to the problem for a software that pretends to be on the edge of automation and efficiency. I am nevertheless happy that I solved the issue somehow.

[cPanelDavidG]

I'm about to submit a report to our developers about this. Please review my report for accuracy and completeness. If I don't hear anything in the next 2 weeks, I'll just submit this report as it is right now.

Add "Optimize Website" to Feature Manager

Currently, when mod_deflate is installed on a server, the "Optimize Website" icon is displayed and cannot easily be hidden as it does not appear in Feature Manager. This request is to add "Optimize Website" to Feature Manager so it can be hidden from the cPanel interface.

Disabling this icon will not prevent users from modifying their .htaccess files to enable this functionality manually. The intent of this feature request is largely to prevent customers from needlessly consuming large amounts of server resources, because, after all, who wouldn't want to optimize their website?

[cPanelDavidG]

I have submitted this report to our developers. As further information, such as an ETA, becomes available, this thread will be updated.

[Hedloff]

Hi David,

Any update on this problem? Will this be fixed in cPanel 11.30 ?

[cPanelDavidG]

Hi David,

Any update on this problem? Will this be fixed in cPanel 11.30 ?

This is not included in the list of items addressed for 11.30. I do not have an ETA nor any update regarding this at this time.

[sneader]

Just as an FYI to anyone that wanders into this thread and is curious how to enable the Optimize Website feature in cPanel -- you must first compile Apache to include the mod_deflate module. In WHM > EasyApache (Apache Update), when going through the update process, choose the "Exhaustive Options List" then check/enable "Deflate".

To confirm mod_deflate is installed, try the following commands (after the EA3 build completes):

/usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -l | grep deflate
/usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -M | grep deflate

Once a particular site has enabled deflate (or used the Optimize Website cPanel feature), you can test that site to see if it's working by using a tool such as the mod_deflate tester at http://showip.be/tools/mod_deflate_test.php.

Thanks to cPanelDon for much of this info.

- Scott