getting error 500 when trying to use gzip with .htaccess

Question

Hello,

I'm trying to use gzip on my site.

I'm trying to compress, php, css and js files. The server is apache 1.3, and the code I have in the .htaccess file is:

# compress all text & html:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml

But when I upload this, I just get an Error 500 page.

Any ideas.

Answer 1

AddOutputFilterByType doesn't appear to be available on Apache 1.3 (src). I believe you'll need to use mod_gzip instead.

"Compatibility: Available in Apache 2.0.33 and later; deprecated in Apache 2.1 and later"