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029 - Apache optimizations for drupal

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 12/10/2008 - 12:13

To reduce transfer sizes on your site is to enable Gzip compression of all pages that Apache serves. To do this, you can add the following to the end of your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \
\.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary

KeepAlives provides long-lived HTTP sessions which allow multiple requests to be sent over the same TCP connection. In some cases this has been shown to result in an almost 50% speedup in latency times for HTML documents with many images.

KeepAlive On