videos not playing in Flowplayer after configuring mod deflate - apache

I configured Apache/2.2.17 server on Windows 7 with mod deflate configured in .htaccess as
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ \
no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \
\.(?:exe|t?gz|zip|bz2|sit|rar)$ \
no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.pdf$ no-gzip dont-vary
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
But everything worked fine except videos were not playing in Flowplayer so I changed (added SWF in exclude from gzip compression ) in .htaccess to
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ \
no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \
\.(?:exe|t?gz|zip|bz2|sit|rar|swf)$ \
no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.pdf$ no-gzip dont-vary
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Now the video plays in flowplayer in all browsers except IE.
I want correct configuration to work in IE also.

The following config worked.
# force deflate for mangled headers
# developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/12/pushing-beyond-gzipping/
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
SetEnvIfNoCase ^(Accept-EncodXng|X-cept-Encoding|X{15}|~{15}|-{15})$ ^((gzip|deflate)\s*,?\s*)+|[X~-]{4,13}$ HAVE_Accept-Encoding
RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding "gzip,deflate" env=HAVE_Accept-Encoding
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
# HTML, TXT, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML, HTC:
<IfModule filter_module>
FilterDeclare COMPRESS
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/html
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/css
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/plain
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/x-component
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/javascript
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/json
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/xhtml+xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/rss+xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/atom+xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/vnd.ms-fontobject
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $image/svg+xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/x-font-ttf
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $font/opentype
FilterChain COMPRESS
FilterProtocol COMPRESS DEFLATE change=yes;byteranges=no
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_filter.c>
# Legacy versions of Apache
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css application/json
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml application/xml text/x-component
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml application/rss+xml application/atom+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/x-font-ttf font/opentype
</IfModule>
</IfModule>

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Problem with mod_deflate - compressing executable file

When trying to download file with.EXE extension in the site, the files are coming as .GZ
Environment
Centos 7 64
Apache 2.4.6
Changing the file in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf I have already tried using each of these forms below, however, to no avail (I restarted apache and deleted the browser cache on each attempt):
1:
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.exe$ no-gzip dont-vary
2:
<FilesMatch \.exe$>
SetEnv no-gzip 1
</FilesMatch>
3:
SetEnv mod_deflate off
4:
SetEnv no-gzip off
5:
In the file /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-base.conf I commented:
LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so
6:
I tried to delete the file, but it did not work.
/usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_deflate.so
I was reviewing httpd.conf and when I removed the addtype directive (AddType application / x-gzip .tgz .rar .zip .exe .dll) the EXE file was no longer compressed.
I had put this because the browser was taking too long to start the download EXE, in addition, RAR file instead of downloading, was being displayed as a binary in the browser.
So I did the following to solve (I do not know if it was the indicated output, but my knowledge is not enough, I'm new in this area):
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# compress text, html, javascript, css, xml...:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/atom_xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-php
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-fastphp
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-eruby
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch ^HMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png|zip|bz2|rar|exe|pdf|doc|dll|jpg|sit|mp4|mov|mp3|3gp|webm|rm|avi|ogv)$ no-gzip dont-vary
<FilesMatch \.exe$>
ForceType application/exe
Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch \.rar$>
ForceType application/rar
Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

"The connection was reset" error caused by specific .htaccess rule

I've recently upgrade my local development environment to Apache 2.4.33 and PHP 7.1.7
No such issue using previous versions of Apache and PHP.
I have a css file which is called directly from the browser /css/styles.min.css It was working fine until I updated the file contents and saved it but now in both Firefox and Chrome I get the equivalent of "The connection was reset" errors.
File permissions and ownership are fine. No issues there.
I can fix it temporarily. I've narrowed it down to a single line in the .htaccess file
RewriteRule (.*)\.1[0-9]+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|js) $1.$2
The line is in use, but doesn't match the file seeing the error. Commenting out that line resolves the issue in both Firefox and Chrome.
There must be an error log somewhere which will suggest a solution, but I can't find it in error_log or access_log
Really odd one. Hopefully somebody can suggest something I can try?
Update
If I only leave the minimum content in the .htaccess file, the problem no longer happens, even though the line is active.
Looks like it's mod_deflate related
I have no idea why removing a single line of the .htaccess file would temporarily resolve the issue, but the update below solves this issue with the css file and another issue with another url parsed by php which was giving the same error. So I'm now able to put .htaccess redirects back in how they were previously.
I replaced:
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript application/x-javascript application/javascript text/x-component
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/richtext text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/json
</IfModule>
With an updated version which will function given no module, apache >= 2.4 or < 2.4
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# Force deflate for mangled headers developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/12/pushing-beyond-gzipping/
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
SetEnvIfNoCase ^(Accept-EncodXng|X-cept-Encoding|X{15}|~{15}|-{15})$ ^((gzip|deflate)\s*,?\s*)+|[X~-]{4,13}$ HAVE_Accept-Encoding
RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding "gzip,deflate" env=HAVE_Accept-Encoding
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
# HTML, TXT, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML, HTC:
<IfModule filter_module.c>
<IfModule version.c>
<IfVersion >= 2.4>
FilterDeclare COMPRESS
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{CONTENT_TYPE} =~ m#^text/(html|css|plain|xml|x-component)#i"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{CONTENT_TYPE} =~ m#^application/(javascript|json|xml|xhtml+xml|rss+xml|atom+xml|vnd.ms-fontobject|x-font-ttf)#i"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{CONTENT_TYPE} =~ m#^image/(svg+xml|x-icon)#i"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{CONTENT_TYPE} = 'font/opentype'"
FilterChain COMPRESS
FilterProtocol COMPRESS DEFLATE change=yes;byteranges=no
</IfVersion>
<IfVersion < 2.4>
FilterDeclare COMPRESS
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/html
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/css
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/plain
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/x-component
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/javascript
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/json
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/xhtml+xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/rss+xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/atom+xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/vnd.ms-fontobject
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $image/svg+xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $image/x-icon
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/x-font-ttf
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $font/opentype
FilterChain COMPRESS
FilterProtocol COMPRESS DEFLATE change=yes;byteranges=no
</IfVersion>
</IfModule>
<IfModule !version.c>
FilterDeclare COMPRESS
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/html
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/css
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/plain
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/x-component
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/javascript
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/json
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/xhtml+xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/rss+xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/atom+xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/vnd.ms-fontobject
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $image/svg+xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $image/x-icon
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/x-font-ttf
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $font/opentype
FilterChain COMPRESS
FilterProtocol COMPRESS DEFLATE change=yes;byteranges=no
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
</IfModule>

Apache gzip SOAP

I am new to Apache and I am trying to figure out how to enable gzip compression to send data over to clients (.NET Compact Framework devices).
I am using Apache 2.2 and so far, I have enabled mod_deflate.so but my content send over netwrok is not gzipped.
Any idea? much appreciated
UPDATE
I am on Windows using Apache 2.2. In my httpd.conf file, I uncommented this line.
LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so
My module Location is in httpd.conf file like this:
<Location /MyModule>
SetHandler mod_MyModule-handler
</Location>
And in httpd.conf file, I already had all this, so nothing was changed here except that I have uncommented DeflateCompressionLevel 9:
<Location />
# Insert filter
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
# compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/json
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
#DeflateCompressionLevel 9 //if I uncomment this, server wont start
# 1 to 9: 9 is the most compressed
# Netscape 4.x has some problems...
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
# Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
# MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
# NOTE: Due to a bug in mod_setenvif up to Apache 2.0.48
# the above regex won't work. You can use the following
# workaround to get the desired effect:
BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
#The following statement indicate which document types not to compress. Many type of documents do not compress well.
#At the end (Appendix 1) of this article some more type you might wish to also exclude from compression
# Don't compress images
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:exe|t?gz|zip|bz2|sit|rar)$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.pdf$ no-gzip dont-vary
# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
# install/enable the Apache module mod_headers
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
# install/enable the Apache module LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so
# turn on the module for this directory
ExpiresActive on
# set defaults
ExpiresByType text/javascript "modification plus 11 months"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "modification plus 11 months"
ExpiresByType text/css "modification plus 11 months"
</Location>
Then I restart Apache, send request to it and receive response but response.ContentEncoding does not show "gzip" in .NETCF client. It looks like I am missing something.
uncomment the deflate module
LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so
and add this stanza to the virts config like this (be sure to include your soap mime type)
<IfModule deflate_module>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
</IfModule>
bash test
function check_compression {
curl -s -k -I -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate' $1 |grep "Content-Encoding"
}
check_compression http://your.url.com
If that doesn't work, check that you have the mime type set correctly for the soap response.

Content-Encoding: gzip doesn't work for text/html Content-Type

I use the config below in my .htaccess. However, whilst other Content-Type get gzipped, the text/html Content-Type doesn't. Anyone knows why?
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript application/javascript
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)$ no-gzip dont-vary
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</IfModule>
Try to insert the AddType for html before it, like:
AddType text/html .html .htm
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript application/javascript
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)$ no-gzip dont-vary
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
Here you have a complete list of MIME types: http://www.htaccess-guide.com/adding-mime-types/
*Edit: Try to change the rule then:
<ifModule mod_deflate.c>
<filesMatch "\.(js|css|html|php)$">
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</filesMatch>
</ifModule>
I ran across this while having the same issue on a Magento site. In my case the answer was to enable zlib output compression in php.ini because the html was being dynamically generated.
For me it was because of the charset. Whereas:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript application/javascript application/json text/json
did not work,
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript application/javascript application/json text/json application/javascript;charset=utf-8 text/css;charset=utf-8
worked. I didn't feel like looking for better answers like how I can instruct Apache to parse out the charset from the content type and I figured that just giving the whole String as is should work. Fortunately it did for me.

HTTP Compression Not 100% on Apache (at Dreamhost)

I am trying to get gzip compression working on the site lavenderdiamond.net/home. I've added the following code to my .htaccess but none of the files that are served on my site are being compressed. I've also checked to see if mod_deflate is enabled on the server and it is. Here's the code:
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Gzip compression
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# Force deflate for mangled headers developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/12/pushing-beyond-gzipping/
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
SetEnvIfNoCase ^(Accept-EncodXng|X-cept-Encoding|X{15}|~{15}|-{15})$ ^((gzip|deflate)\s*,?\s*)+|[X~-]{4,13}$ HAVE_Accept-Encoding
RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding "gzip,deflate" env=HAVE_Accept-Encoding
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
# Compress all output labeled with one of the following MIME-types
<IfModule mod_filter.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/atom+xml \
application/javascript \
application/json \
application/rss+xml \
application/vnd.ms-fontobject \
application/x-font-ttf \
application/xhtml+xml \
application/xml \
font/opentype \
image/svg+xml \
image/x-icon \
text/css \
text/html \
text/plain \
text/x-component \
text/xml
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
I have a support ticket open with Dreamhost in case the problem is on their side, but I wonder if other people have had trouble getting compression enabled in general, or on Dreamhost specifically. Also I am very inexperienced in knowing how to debug possible problems with Apache. Is there a way to see error messages here and to know what might be going wrong that way? Any help would be well appreciated!
I was having this problem as well. I checked an older website I have hosted with Dreamhost and noticed the files were compressing correctly so I copied the relevant (older) H5P .htaccess chunk into my newer website and now it works.
Replace the "IfModule mod_filter.c" chunk with the following:
# HTML, TXT, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML, HTC:
<IfModule filter_module>
FilterDeclare COMPRESS
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/html
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/css
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/plain
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/x-component
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/javascript
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/json
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/xhtml+xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/rss+xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/atom+xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/vnd.ms-fontobject
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $image/svg+xml
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $image/x-icon
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/x-font-ttf
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $font/opentype
FilterChain COMPRESS
FilterProtocol COMPRESS DEFLATE change=yes;byteranges=no
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_filter.c>
# Legacy versions of Apache
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css application/json
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml application/xml text/x-component
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml application/rss+xml application/atom+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon image/svg+xml application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/x-font-ttf font/opentype
</IfModule>