gzip compression in html

Question

i want to apply gzip compression on my site , all my site is in html and

i have following limitations

1. hosting server is windows 2003 server.
2. i can upload files, but i can't modify IIS (as most if users just having hosting account)
3. i can't modify the .html files to .php as i have too many pages in html, changing file extension is big job to change links in each page.

i want to apply gzip compression on all html files and css files.

i believe there must be other way.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you cannot modify IIS and cannot be bothered to change your files to PHP to use output buffering, then the answer is you cannot GZip them. Hint: sed find and mv are your friend, as is your IDE's Search/Replace function.

Answer 2

Not entirely sure if this would work, but you could:

1. Download all the files to your computer (if they’re not there already)
2. Use the command line program gzip to gzip each file individually, leaving their names the same.
3. Upload them to the server again.

IIS might be clever enough to notice that they’re gzipped, and serve them with the correct HTTP headers. But of course, it might not.

It’s probably a good idea to ask your hosting company how you can serve your files with gzip compression on the hosting plan you’re on.