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On LAMP how do one turn OFF an ON gZip compression?

Posted December 4, 2014 4.3k views

Hi there,

I see by default gzip is ON. That’s sound! But what if I want turn it off? I need perform some tests and see difference between turned on and off gzip.

I found this htaccess line of code RewriteRule . - [E=no-gzip:1]
Bot it seems doesn’t work..

Thank you

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kamaln7 December 4, 2014

Hi,

You can disable gzip compression by disabling the two modules that handle it:

sudo a2dismod deflate
sudo a2dismod gzip

Make sure you restart Apache after doing that:

sudo service apache2 restart
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  • sashareds December 4, 2014

    Hey,
    Thanks for the quick replay

    Looks like it works.. Tho server told me he doesn’t know who is gZip

    Here’s log

    root@######:/var/www# sudo a2dismod deflate
Module deflate disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
service apache2 restart
root@######:/var/www# sudo a2dismod gzip
ERROR: Module gzip does not exist!
root@######:/var/www# sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
* Restarting web server apache2 
AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message

    Not sure what that all means.. first time on ubuntu.. on mac, sentos and freebsd was a bit different)
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