On 02/04/2010 11:20 PM, J. Bakshi wrote:
> On 02/04/2010 05:16 PM, Philip Wigg wrote:
>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_deflate.html
>>
>> There you will see examples of how to configure a mod_deflate log file
>> which is useful is you want to see what mod_deflate is doing.
>>
>> A couple of things that tripped me up whilst configuring this recently:-
>>
>> 1. mod_deflate doesn't seem to play nicely with IE6. Google
>> 'mod_deflate IE6' to see what I mean. We ended up disabling it for
>> IE6.
>>
>> 2. If you configure mod_deflate logging in the main host, but you've
>> enabled virtual hosting, your log file will be created but it will be
>> empty. You need to configure the log file inside your Virtual Host
>> block instead.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Phil.
>>
>
> Thanks to all responders. I ensure that mod_deflate is now enable in my
> suse 11.0 server
>
> /etc/sysconfig/apache2
> ---------------------------------
>
> [.....]
>
> LoadModule deflate_module /usr/lib64/apache2-prefork/mod_deflate.so
>
> [......]
>
> I have placed the following in httpd.conf
>
> [.......]
> <IfModule mod_deflate.c>
> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml
> </IfModule>
> [.......]
>
> and restarted apache. No error or complaining. But I have not found any
> difference in access.log to see the presence of deflate. I admit I have
> not change the LogFormat as awstats is running here and the LogFormat is
> modified to support awstats. vhost logging is separated by vlogger here.
>
> So I can see one of two options
>
> 1. mod_deflate is running but can't see here in log
> 2. mod_deflate is not running at all.
>
> How can I go further to check it ?
>
> thanks
>

Start by removing the IfModule directives.

Frank.

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