YSlow, expires header and compression
Every time I need to raise a pitiful YSlow score, I follow the same recipe, and every time I do so, I realise I've not written it down anywhere. In my continuing quest to turn convert this blog from interesting narrative to boring snippets archive, I present the appropriate apache.conf stanza:
# Enable Expires header
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 30 days"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 30 days"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 30 days"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 30 days"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 30 days"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 30 days"
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 hour"
# Enable gzip compression
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript
Enabling the required modules is left as an exercise to the reader, on a Debian-ish system, the modules are installed as 'deflate' and 'expires'.
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