Hi guys,
I've been reading up on the merits of IIS 6 compression over at CodingHorror (here), but I don't get where I'm supposed to make those alterations. Web.config or somewhere else?
Thanks!
A:
in the IIS configuration file Metabase.xml. Its location is:
C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\Metabase.xml
inside the XML file find the sections jeff talks about, and make those changes.
beware of one detail, default IIS 6 compression settings introduces problems for users behind some proxies, some HTTP 1.0 related issue ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501192 ), so make sure to disable the compression for HTTP 1.0 requests by setting the following setting to true:
HcNoCompressionForHttp10="TRUE"
details at: http://serverfault.com/questions/12398/http-compression-in-iis-6-0-causing-problems-with-certain-users
zappan
2010-04-15 15:51:31
Great answer. The path to the xml in particular what I was after (don't like not knowing where the options are). I checked the other option you mentioned and it's already true, I guess that's default :)
United
2010-04-15 18:08:39
lucky you, i've been pulling my hair for two months because of that :) . althouth, i don't remember if it was false by default, or by copying jeff's configuration from blog post...
zappan
2010-04-16 11:02:20
+1
A:
Here's a walkthrough on enabling HTTP Compression (gzip) on IIS 6: http://www.salutony.com/Lists/KB/DispForm.aspx?ID=9
Bill Paetzke
2010-05-13 22:08:40