mod_gzip problems...help?

[Ed FvC]

I'm running mod_gzip on my server, with a pretty standard configuration. I'm hearing that people are having problems viewing certain files. Sometimes a page, particularly index.htm or index.html, will come up with all binary gibberish or they get prompted to download the file instead of just viewing it normally. This never happened before I loaded mod_gzip, but with our traffic, it's pretty necessary. Here's the config I'm using:<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_minimum_file_size 300
mod_gzip_maximum_file_size 0
mod_gzip_maximum_inmem_size 100000
mod_gzip_item_include file \.htm$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.html$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.shtml$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.shtm$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.jsp$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.php$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.pl$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.cgi$
mod_gzip_item_include mime text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-httpd-php
mod_gzip_item_include mime httpd/unix-directory
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^perl-script$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^server-status$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^server-info$
mod_gzip_item_exclude file .css$
mod_gzip_item_exclude file .js$
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
mod_gzip_dechunk yes
mod_gzip_temp_dir /tmp
mod_gzip_keep_workfiles No
mod_gzip_can_negotiate yes
</IfModule> Any ideas?? Thanks!

[eva2000]

what browser and version are you using ?

can you post a few html/htm urls as examples

[Ed FvC]

See, the thing is, I've never personally experienced this problem. Those that have mostly use Internet Explorer, but I'm not quite sure. It seems to happen when a file is linked straight to the 'index.html' file as opposed to just the directory where it's located (i.e. http://www.rajahwwf.com/index.html vs http://www.rajahwwf.com/). I really don't see the correlation since I thought browsers have been compatible with compression for quite some time now.

[eva2000]

well i'm using IE 5.5 and can view both urls fine..

ask your visitors if they're using IE 5.x with http 1.1 enabled in options advance menu

[Ed FvC]

I'm using IE6 and I turned off "Use http 1.1" just to try...and I still don't get any problems. :confused: Could this be some freaky mime type issue? I really don't want to remove mod_gzip just because of the massive amount of traffic we get...

Oh, a related question... In the mod_gzip config, is the $ at the end of a filetype a wildcard of sorts? I mean... wouldn't 'mod_gzip_item_include file \.htm$' be the same as 'mod_gzip_item_include file \.html$'?

[Ed FvC]

Turns out it was a conflict with the FrontPage Extensions and mod_gzip...Since no one uses FrontPage, away it went! No more problems. :D Thanks again, Eva.

[eva2000]

Originally posted by Ed FvC
Turns out it was a conflict with the FrontPage Extensions and mod_gzip...Since no one uses FrontPage, away it went! No more problems. :D Thanks again, Eva. ah microsoft the pain in everyone's back side :)