There are a lot of references out there on this, but you have to sort of pull it all together on your own for this particular combination.

Verify that mod_deflate has been installed in Apache:

1. Open /etc/sysconfig/apache2.

2. Find the line that starts:

APACHE_MODULES=…

3. Verify that “deflate” is one of the modules listed (may not be in alphabetical order).

Now, enable compression in the virtual host file for your site:

1. Open /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/.conf.

2. Add the following lines inside the tag:

    <IfModule mod_deflate.c>
	DeflateBufferSize 32768
	DeflateCompressionLevel 5

	<Location />
		SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
		BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
		BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
		BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
		SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png|tiff)$ no-gzip dont-vary
		# Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
	</Location>
    </IfModule>

Now restart Apache using:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

and you should be in business!

Validate that compression is working

A great, handy online site that you can use to validate that compression is working is http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php.

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Over the years I’ve collected together a list of the tools I use all the time. I know there are lots of other lists like this out there, but, well, they’re not mine!!

I’m going to try to keep adding to this list on a regular basis as I find new tools, or decide to move on from others.

Linux Connectivity

NX from NoMachine.com

One of my favorites is NX from http://www.nomachine.com/download.php.  This is the closest I’ve come to “Remote Desktop” for the Linux machines we’re using.  I’ve tried VNC and, yeah, it works, but NX is so much smoother and nicer to work in day to day.

Putty

Ok, I’m definitely just scratching the surface of what this can do.  But just being able to get to a terminal on our Linux boxes quickly and easily – without starting a whole X session – is soooo nice!

Remote System Control

mRemote

I spend half my day connecting to other systems – Windows systems, Linux systems, even our Macs.  The best tool I’ve found to manage all those connections is mRemote.  Unfortunately, development has stopped on the free version and they’ve gone commercial.  But, no worries, so far, I haven’t come up with a good reason to go for the paid version.  It supports, remote desktop (rdp), VNC, SSH, Telnet and a bunch more.  Great tool.  Now if only it could handle NX…

Editors

Notepad++

Ok, I know, probably everyone in the world knows about this one.  But this is sooo much better than notepad.exe, ESPECIALLY when doing cross platform development (dumb notepad doesn’t recognize ascii 10 as a valid line-feed).   There are so many other reasons to use notepad++ instead, I haven’t even scratched the surface myself.

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