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proxy + compress ?

hello everyone,

I have  lighttpd 1.4.18-1, running on Linux RHEL4 (with updates from centos4). I set it up to run as a proxy for
a Zope app which runs on port 8080. It works ok via port 80 and 443 - thanks for making it so easy!

Now, the zope app doesn't compress it's content. I would like lighty to do it for me. So I enabled the compress
module, configured it..and nothing changes. I changed the order the module are defined in the config
file, hoping that would affect the order in which they are loaded/ executed, no luck.

My relevant bits of configs are :

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server.modules              = (
                                "mod_redirect",
                                "mod_access",
                                "mod_compress",
                                "mod_proxy",
                                "mod_accesslog" )

## change uid to <uid> (default: don't care)
server.username            = "lighttpd"

## change uid to <uid> (default: don't care)
server.groupname           = "lighttpd"

#### compress module
compress.cache-dir         = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
compress.filetype          = ("text/plain", "text/html")

proxy.debug=0

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Volker Schäfer | 10 Dec 16:03

Re: proxy + compress ?

Am Dienstag, den 11.12.2007, 01:19 +1100 schrieb Norberto Meijome:
> hello everyone,
> 
> I have  lighttpd 1.4.18-1, running on Linux RHEL4 (with updates from centos4). I set it up to run as a proxy
for a Zope app which runs on port 8080. It works ok via port 80 and 443 - thanks for making it so easy!
> 
> Now, the zope app doesn't compress it's content. I would like lighty to do it for me. So I enabled the
compress module, configured it..and nothing changes. I changed the order the module are defined in the
config file, hoping that would affect the order in which they are loaded/ executed, no luck.
> 

AFAIK mod_compress won't compress dynamic or proxied content.
mod_deflate does.

http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Mod_Deflate

--Regards
  Volker Schäfer

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Norberto Meijome | 12 Dec 08:48

Re: proxy + compress ?

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:03:43 +0100
Volker Schäfer <vs <at> neopoly.de> wrote:

> AFAIK mod_compress won't compress dynamic or proxied content.
> mod_deflate does.
> 
> http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Mod_Deflate

gotcha, thanks :)

so what does compress actually do ?

cheers,
B
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