apache gzipping issue

[marco28]

Hi all

 

I have some pre-gzipped .js files i want to serve.  I have 3 different servers i have these files on, and in my .htaccess i have

 

RewriteEngine  on

 

AddEncoding x-gzip .gz .js.gz

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-encoding} gzip

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.gz -f

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.gz [QSA,L]

 

 

This works for 1 of my 3 apache servers.  Mod_rewrite is enables on all 3.

 

On the 2 servers where this doesn't work, the .js.gz files do get served to the browser, but they do not get unzipped.  And so, the applcation doesn't work.  The files do however get renamed to filename.js ( which is correct).

 

So what is different between server settings?  I only have access to 1 httpd.conf file ( my localhost - which is one of the 2 that don't work).

 

Anyone have any ideas? 

 

marco

[corbin]

What version of Apache?  If it's a version that uses deflate, you can just do something like this:

 

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/js application/javascript

 

 

I'm pretty sure just adding the encoding doesn't make Apache gzip it.