Comments on: Compress JavaScript with Gzip

By: roshan

roshan — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:30:37 +0000

it worked now had made a minor mistake

By: roshan

roshan — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:24:09 +0000

I tried to do the same for CSS but didn’t work

Do i need to do something else so that it works for CSS as

well

Thanks

By: osogtulak

osogtulak — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:13:33 +0000

You can compress practically anything i.e. trying with jpg

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.jgz -f
RewriteRule (.*)\.jpg$ $1\.jpg.jpgz [L]
AddType “image/jpg” .jpg.jpgz
AddEncoding gzip .jpgz

By: ImageBox

ImageBox — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:54:08 +0000

Just upload your javascript files to yourjavascript.com and they will host and gzip your .js files.

By: Clayton

Clayton — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:04:59 +0000

I m newbie with Apache and Javascript, so sorry for my question:

I use windows XP, with Apache 2.2.

In my HTML I have the following script TAG:

Important: All others javascript are not gzipped.

When I loaded the HTML page (Firefox) the “Error Console”, showed the error “illegal character”.

So, I created a file htaccess.txt and inside it I put the lines:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.gz -f
RewriteRule (.*)\.js$ $1\.js.gz [L]
AddType “text/javascript” .js.gz
AddEncoding gzip .gz

Inside the httpd.conf I add the line “AccessFileName htaccess.txt” (without the quotes)

What is wrong? Why the message “illegal character” ?

By: Roald

Roald — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:20:40 +0000

Thanks! Works perfectly for me in Firefox, IE6, 7 & 8!

By: theo

theo — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:44:00 +0000

Do i have to put something like “” and “” befor and after the code in the htaccess file ? thank you

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:52:56 +0000

Ok, after some more work, I realized that I in the course of troubleshooting I had it working partially, but then broke it. Now, I’ve got it back to where I started, which is working properly IF the .js file doesn’t exist. If it exists, then it uses the bigger file. Do I need to specify the .js.jgz file in my html?

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:39:43 +0000

Scratch that, actually, I can’t get it to work at all. It’s just not detecting the .jgz at all. I’m suspecting that it’s because the apache is not working with the RewriteCond Http-accept Encoding rule.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:28:41 +0000

I’m having some trouble with implementing your post. I’m on 1and1 and I’ve got mod-rewrite working for other stuff, but I’m not sure if the HTTP-Accept Encoding is working properly on their apache server. If I remove the .js file, it seems to pick up the .jgz file, but if it is there, then it uses it and transfers the bigger file. Any ideas?