How to enable Gzip compression on Plesk – Apache

How to enable Gzip compression Plesk – Apache

If you are using Apache web server on your Plesk server, you can enable Gzip compression on Plesk by using the following method.

Please click here to know how to enable Gzip compression on Plesk using Nginx web server.

First you need to check the module mod_deflate is enabled on the server.

 
httpd -M |grep deflate

Then you need to create the file /etc/httpd/conf.d/deflate.conf

 
vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/deflate.conf

and add the following into it.

 
<ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript application/javascript
DeflateCompressionLevel 8
</ifmodule>

Restart Apache

 
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Once it is done, you can verify the Gzip is enabled on your website by clicking Here

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