How to enable gzip in Apache (django)?

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I did a speed test on pingdom.com and it said that I should "Vary: Accept-Encoding header". How can I enable this on Apache2 (django).

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I've created a django app using the installer and linked it to a website. According to curl, that header exists:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 13:52:51 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: keep-alive
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN

A pingdom test also gave that an A grade.

This is a header the django framework adds.

That said, if you want apache to add it, you will need to update your app's httpd.conf file in the apache2/conf directory and add the following two lines:

LoadModule headers_module    modules/mod_headers.so
Header append Vary Accept-Encoding

The official document is here.

Answer 2

1	You can now selectively enable and disable gzip compression for HTTPS websites via our control panel at: https://my.webfaction.com/websites permanent link answered 25 May '17, 16:15 seanf 12.2k●3●18●36 accept rate: 37%

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