Below are compression and expiration settings for Apache that I’ve found optimal for StepMania. Â You can paste them into your .htaccess file.
- Don’t mess with PHP’s ob_gzhandler.  The settings below enable compression at the Apache module level, are the cleanest way to handle compression of non-PHP types, and are better performing to boot.
- If your PHP application has a option for compression (it’ll be using ob_gzhander), turn that off in favor of these settings.
- Web-Sniffer is useful for testing whether your compression and cache-control settings are taking effect. It’s also useful for troubleshooting HTTP error responses that Firefox and Chrome hide with pretty error pages.
<IfModule mod_deflate.c> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-php AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-fastphp AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-eruby </IfModule> <IfModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType audio/x-wav "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType audio/mpeg "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType video/mpeg "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType video/mp4 "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType video/quicktime "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType video/x-ms-wmv "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month" ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 hour" ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 hour" </IfModule>