Compressing Javascript & CSS using Gzip

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OK, the question may sound familiar - and I've read answers about it everywhere BUT (before you point me to some other answer) none of that has worked for me (htaccess modifications, gzip-ping beforehand, etc).

So, let me explain you the situation :

My website is CodeIgniter-based
I'm using XAMPP on Mac (for development purposes), so my actual testing address is something like http://localhost/~drkameleon/mysitename
The only .htaccess file I've edited (and that, only for CI-oriented rewritting) resides on the very same directory as my CI installation

So, how do I enable JS/CSS gzip compression? (I don't really care even if the scripts are pre-compressed, they're 100% static anyway...)

Robin Castlin · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-16 08:19:54Z

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I have this through a controller that loads the css and javascript files in two different functions, then run this:

if (substr_count($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING'], 'gzip'))
    ob_start("ob_gzhandler");
else ob_start();

// headers

// output

ob_end_flush();

Seems to be doing the trick for me.

edited May 16, 2013 at 8:19

answered May 16, 2013 at 7:06

Robin Castlin

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Robin Castlin Over a year ago

I create a controller which loads all the files, and outputs them together with this code.

Dr.Kameleon Over a year ago

Hmm... I still don't get it - I'm not such a guru with HTTP Headers, etc. Could you please give me more complete example? I'm using several "external" .js scripts, I'm importing within a View the usual way (<script></script>). Where should the controller be called? Does it simply echo the .js files' content? (after ob_start I mean...)

Dr.Kameleon Over a year ago

OK, I finally made it work - although I'm definitely not sure how I did it (lol) - thought I had tried that one before (perhaps it was some issue with the cache not having being cleared before re-testing? - don't know...) Pff... Thanks a lot, anyway, buddy! ;-)

Robin Castlin Over a year ago

Personally, I just have an array of the paths to the files, loop with readfile() and only include one "js" file which is the php controller outputting everything.

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