http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/Latest comments on PHP, Gzip and htaccess on AddedBytes.comhttp://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/Comment by IceBurn ( <a href="http://iceburn.info">http://iceburn.info</a> )<br /><br />Remember, first things first - if your problem is bandwith or simple want your pages to load faster, you definitely should use gzip...<br /> <br /> ...HOWEVER, if you have a site with an heavy load, and you're always running out of memory, than you don't want to use gzip. <br /> <br /> The gzip process needs additional memory, so, compress your code instead (javascript, CSS, XHTML...). <br /> <br /> It can be confusing to edit it after, but if you save two versions, one compressed and one regular, you've just make the day, and your server will say thanks! =)<br /> <br /> http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/Comment by mrpwnage ( <a href=""></a> )<br /><br />I'm using a Windows end-to-end 64-bit system. That means Apache, PHP & MySQL are all 64-bit binaries. That being said, I can't run (can i?) mod_gzip because there is no x64 version. And now my question: I don't want to have to add this to every single page on the site manually, isn't there a way that I could set it to use gzip compression globally on the entire site indiscriminately? Perhaps through the httpd.conf or php.ini?http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/Comment by fedmich ( <a href="http://fedmich.com">http://fedmich.com</a> )<br /><br />Thanks for this :) especially for the htaccess parthttp://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/Comment by Steve ( <a href="http://www.china-channels.com">http://www.china-channels.com</a> )<br /><br />Thanks Dave! Some very good stuff!http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/Comment by Tom ( <a href="http://tomschlick.com">http://tomschlick.com</a> )<br /><br />Thanks alot dave, <br />one of my clients was having trouble with their account taking up too much of the servers time and the server would suspend the account for 3 min. well their information needs to be accessed 24/7 so this cannot happen. well this worked very well and they havnt been suspened since i put that in. (it used to happen everyday at least once) <br /> <br />again, THANKS ALOT!http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/Comment by Anonymous ( <a href="http://thainy.com">http://thainy.com</a> )<br /><br />Seem like your Caching script is super-set of this script. <br />Both great script anyway. :)http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/Comment by Bay of Islands ( <a href="http://www.bayofislands.net/">http://www.bayofislands.net/</a> )<br /><br />Is this method the same as or better than mod_gzip in an htaccess file?http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/Comment by Phil Dufault ( <a href="http://dufault.info">http://dufault.info</a> )<br /><br />You can check if your site is now using gzip compress, and the compression ratio, using this online tool: <br />http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php <br /> <br />For those of us using Firefox, here's an extension that can show this: <br />https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/Comment by Ken Wong ( <a href="http://WebKing.hk">http://WebKing.hk</a> )<br /><br />Thank you very much! <br /> <br />I did follow your instruction to do that on http://WebKing.hk, but 1 silly question, how can I know that my site is gzip already? <br /> <br />Thank you!!http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/http://www.addedbytes.com/article/php-gzip-and-htaccess/comments/Comment by Mike ( <a href=""></a> )<br /><br />So do I! <br />You are my guru!