Here are the slides from my talk this afternoon.

Here’s a tip on how to turn on HTTPD compression on your php site.

Option 1) Edit your php.ini file

; Transparent output compression using the zlib library
; Valid values for this option are 'off', 'on', or a specific buffer size
; to be used for compression (default is 4KB)
; Note: Resulting chunk size may vary due to nature of compression. PHP
;       outputs chunks that are few handreds bytes each as a result of compression.
;       If you want larger chunk size for better performence, enable output_buffering
;       also.
; Note: output_handler must be empty if this is set 'On' !!!!
;       Instead you must use zlib.output_handler.
zlib.output_compression = On

Option 2) If you haven’t got access to the php.ini file. Create this .htaccess file to your home directory to turn on compression.

AddType application/x-httpd-php php .htm .html
php_flag zlib.output_compression on

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