[naviserver-devel] gzipping static content - how to do?

[John f. D. E. <jo...@de...>]

I’m struggling a bit to get naviserver to gzip static content (.js and.css). ADP gzipping is working.

According to the docs, it’d seem that all I need to do is enable all the fastpath config stuff below, and it’d work, but that’s not doing the trick.  Perhaps there is additional fast path configuring to do to enable certain directories?

According to this code by Daniel Clark, a fast path filter is needed to make this work, but it seems that (a) his code may not be current and (b) his filter doesn’t work because he doesn’t supply the other dependent functions his code calls.
https://www.qcode.co.uk/post/121

I’ve looked at the fastpath.c/fastpath.tcl as the docs indicated, but was not illuminated.

I probably just don’t know where to look, but after about 2h of banging on this, I thought I’d ask for help….

-john



ns_section	"ns/fastpath"

   # Enable cache for normal URLs. Optional, default is false.
   ns_param	cache			true

   # Size of fast path cache. Optional, default is ~10M.
   ns_param	cachemaxsize		[expr 1024*10000]

   # Largest file size allowed in cache. Optional, default is 8K
   ns_param	cachemaxentry		8192

   # Use mmap() for cache. Optional, default is false.
   ns_param	mmap			true

   # Return gzip-ed variant, if available and allowed by client (default false)
   ns_param	gzip_static		true

   # Refresh stale .gz files on the fly using ::ns_gzipfile (default false)
   ns_param	gzip_refresh		true

   # Return the specified command for re-compressing when gzip file is outdated
   ns_param	gzip_cmd		"/usr/bin/gzip -9"