By jaypabs on
Is anybody their who successfully installed boost module without error hosting at hostgator? I have followed everything in the readme file but after enabling and adding the code from boosted1.txt to .htaccess the result is a Page not found after opening my website.
I am thinking that this is an issue with hostgator. I am not sure though.
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Please help me on this or
Please help me on this or else I have to upgrade to VPS. I am having more than 200k page views a month and sometimes my website is too slow serving dynamic pages.
update: I talked to the customer service of hostgator and they said gzip compression is not supported on shared server. I believe boost still work even without gzip compression. I tried disabling it but still I'm having a page not found error.
Another update: After I finished talking to the customer support of hostgator they found out some permission problem on my files/folders. Now I am running boost successfully.
For those who are having a hard time enabling boost I suggest you talk to your web hosting's customer support.
Working
Boost allows you to set custom chmod numbers http://drupal.org/node/545908#adv. Glad to hear you got it working! I recommend creating a blog post talking about this issue, and the benefits of running boost; then adding your blog post to this page.
EDIT: did you get gzip working on that host?
>>EDIT: did you get gzip
>>EDIT: did you get gzip working on that host?
No. Hostgator said gzip compression is not supported on shared hosting. They only support it on VPS and dedicated server.
Yes I will create a blog post for this.
Thank you
Did you try?
It might work, uses PHP to compress not Apache.
But it needs to modify boost
But it needs to modify boost script?
htaccess rules
Depends on where you got the rules from. If you got them from htaccess1.txt, that is the all inclusive rule set (don't need to change anything), if you got them from performance/boost-rules then those are the slimmed down rules that match your current settings (and thus require you to update your htaccess rules).
Does it mean that there is no
Does it mean that there is no advantage in enabling Boost on a server that does not support gzip?! What about database requests?! I guess they must be minimal when Boost is on?!
No, boost is still
No, boost is still considerably useful even without gzip support. Database is not a question here I think since boost create a new file as static HTML.