[Mod_gzip] Compressing 404 output

Paul L Daniels mod_gzip@lists.over.net
Fri, 4 Apr 2003 12:07:09 +1000


Good day,

	Bit of a curious issue here, I'm trying to get the output of 404 pages to
be compressed.

	Currently I get the following in the log:

GET /bhelton HTTP/1.1" 404 9206 mod_gzip: SEND_AS_IS:NO_200 In:0 -< Out:0
= 0 pct.

	The 404 page is set via a .htaccess file, which contains:
ErrorDocument 404 /nltm.php


Current httpd.conf--------------------------------------------------------
LogFormat                     "%h %l %u %t \"%V %r\" %<s %b mod_gzip:
%{mod_gzip_result}n In:%{mod_gzip_input_size}n -<
Out:%{mod_gzip_output_size} n = %{mod_gzip_compression_ratio}n pct."
common_with_mod_gzip_info2 CustomLog                     logs/mod_gzip.log
common_with_mod_gzip_info2 mod_gzip_add_header_count     Yes
mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_minimum_file_size 300
mod_gzip_maximum_file_size 0
mod_gzip_maximum_inmem_size 100000
mod_gzip_item_include file .htm$
mod_gzip_item_include file .html$
mod_gzip_item_include file .shtml$
mod_gzip_item_include file .shtm$
mod_gzip_item_include file .jsp$
mod_gzip_item_include file .php$
mod_gzip_item_include file .pl$
mod_gzip_item_include file .cgi$
mod_gzip_item_include mime text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-httpd-php
mod_gzip_item_include mime httpd/unix-directory
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^perl-script$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^server-status$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^server-info$
mod_gzip_item_exclude file .css$
mod_gzip_item_exclude file .js$
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
mod_gzip_dechunk yes
mod_gzip_temp_dir /usr/local/apache/tmp
mod_gzip_keep_workfiles No
mod_gzip_can_negotiate yes
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