mod_deflate not working; am I missing a step?

[GoWilkes]

I'm moving from an old server to a new one.

In setting up the new server, one of my first steps was recompiling Apache with all of the usual modules, including mod_deflate.

I'm getting ready to make the new server live, but I did a Gzip compression test, here:

GIDZipTest: Web Page Compression (Deflate / Gzip) Test - GIDNetwork

and it comes back as not compressed.

I looked in /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf, and there's no mention of "deflate". But there's no mention of it in the httpd.conf file on my old server, either, which IS compressed.

Am I missing a step? Or is it not compressing because the domain is pinging the old server, and then the DNS records redirect it to the new server (making the old server a proxy)?

 

[kdean]

When you login on the cPanel side for the site's account, do you have it enabled under the "Optimize Website" icon?

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

Here is a snippet from our documentation on Mod_Deflate:

EasyApache enables mod_deflate by default, but you must enable compression for each individual web site. You can enable compression for an individual web site with the Optimize Website (Home >> Software/Services >> Optimize Website) interface in cPanel.

Thank you.

 

[dalem]

if you want to set all domains to use mod_deflate add to Apache include

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE


# Don’t compress images
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary


# Make sure proxies don’t deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary