By fkdsfodsf on

I am designing a site for people in the developing world.

For some reason, my site breaks when I turn on BOTH drupal's cache and gzip.

Considering I can only turn one on (unless someone knows a way to fix this), which one provides the biggest benefit to load speed?

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sami_k commented

If the majority of your users will not be logged on, use cache, if they will be logged on use gzip.

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pamphile commented

Just wondering, how are you turning on the gzip ?

http://01debug.com

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fkdsfodsf commented

I'm turning it on through my .htaccess file:

php_flag zlib.output_compression on
php_value zlib.output_compression_level 1

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killes@www.drop.org commented

There have been problems with zlib.output_compression. For some reason this does not check the sent headers (which clearly say that the output is already gzipped). This has never happened with mod_gzip, though, so you might want to try this.
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fkdsfodsf’s picture

fkdsfodsf commented

how would I turn mod-gzip on?

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paulr00001 commented

Get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-gzip/

Configure, make etc, then put it with your other apache modules

Add the line to load the module in httpd.conf (put it last the docs said)

I used the default config provided and put it in an htaccess file where I wanted to test it.

Restart apache.

Check a page here to see if it's working
http://leknor.com/code/gziped.php

* Most pages I checked showed about 75% compression. Pretty cool.

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bertboerland commented

a long time ago I had the same, both drupal and apache were compressing pages resulting in a gzipped gzipped html page which was unzipped once at the client rendering garbage. see what I did and if this solved the problem and please add your name and config to that bug report as well.
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sja1 commented

I had the same problem with my 4.6 website, and finally found the solution in this thread. The solution is to change the data type of the "data" column in the "cache" table from "longtext" to "longblob". The above referenced node discusses changing the data type to "mediumblob", but I looked at the 4.7 table definition (where this issue seems to have been resolved), and they used "longblob". After changing the data type and clearing the cache table, voila! Caching finally works!

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