#4 Apache2 Build Needed

[Anonymous]

Apache 2.043 compatible versions are badly needed of
the latest mod_gzip version.

[Kenneth Porter]

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Nice article here on the subject of upgrading modules from
Apache 1 to 2:

http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=7532/ddj0209d/0209d.htm

[Bob Balsover]

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I am not so sure that it is needed, this is from the Apache
2.0 configuration file that came with my RH 8.0 dist.

#
# AddEncoding allows you to have certain browsers (Mosaic/X
2.1+) uncompress
# information on the fly. Note: Not all browsers support this.
# Despite the name similarity, the following Add* directives
have nothing
# to do with the FancyIndexing customization directives above.
#
AddEncoding x-compress Z
AddEncoding x-gzip gz tgz

So it would appear that gzip is already supported, does
anyone know how to verify this?

[Klaus Johannes Rusch]

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> So it would appear that gzip is already supported, does anyone know how to verify this?

AddEncoding only sets the Content-Encoding header for _files_ that have the specified extension, it does not do
any automatic compression like mod_gzip

[Jordan Christensen]

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Apache 2 supports 'mod_deflate':
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html

It seems to be missing some features that are in mod_gzip
(like automatically updating .gz files), but mostly its there.