Retrieving error 404 when asking for gzipped assets files - apache

Question

I've compressed JavaScript and CSS files using gzip. The JS files are already minified before it compressed with gzip cmd.
Now I need to tell apache to serve gzipped version of those files, if the browsers are compatible. For that I've added few lines of code in htaccess like this:
AddType "text/javascript" .gz
AddType "text/css" .gz
AddEncoding gzip .gz
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.(js|css)$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !Safari
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1.gz [QSA,L]
<FilesMatch .*\.js.gz$>
ForceType text/javascript
Header set Content-Encoding: gzip
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch .*\.css.gz$>
ForceType text/css
Header set Content-Encoding: gzip
</FilesMatch>
And the directory structure for the files inside public_html as follows:
css/style.css
css/style.css.gz
js/customjsfn.min.js
js/customjsfn.min.js.gz
js/jquery.js
js/jquery.js.gz
In header I've included the css & js files like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://example.com/css/style.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://example.com/js/customjsfn.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://example.com/js/jquery.min.js"></script>
The styles are not applied properly. When I checked the response code using firebug, it returns 404 for my files.
Where I'm going wrong?

Answer 1

Shouldn't this suffice?
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/xml application/xml text/css text/plain text/javascript application/x-javascript application/json
</IfModule>

Answer 2

Nevermind you are doing this completely wrong. (I think, unless this actually is a legitimate way of doing this).
You should not be creating gzipped alternate assets. The webserver (apache) will compress them for you automatically. You do not need to redirect the user to gzipped assets.
Just add the deflate module as Rodneyrehm said, and it will handle the rest. That is probably why you are getting the 404 error. Don't create javascript.js.gz files.
See this:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html