Tickets :: Comment on [#11017] precompress files in /static

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Comment	>> In static/ are put the minified .js and .css files, which are sent to >> the user's browser. If the webserver is configured properly, the >> minified .js/.css files are cached on the user's side and the server >> load on subsequent requests is minified this way. So far so good. >> >> Another possible optimization is to pre-compress the files in >> /static, so that for each file a .js/css plain and .js.gz/.css.gz >> version exists. > > Do you mean automatically creating the files to then compress them? > This can't happen because the payload for any given page is not known > until the page is created. > >> The instructions for some webservers, how to call the precompressed >> files vary. For Apache httpd you can find instructions that procees >> .gzip files, for Nginx you have just to say "gzip_static on;" and the >> server starts preferring files with .js.gz extenstion and when a file >> .js is requested. > > We really don't want to get into the business of trying to track > the ways various httpd servers can compress data. I wouldn't mind a > 1 or 2 sentence blurb on this in PERFORMANCE, but we are not going to > provide individual examples. That is up to the server admin to > figure out. > > If others want to provide real-life examples on the wiki, that is the > more appropriate place to put this information since it is not > directly Horde-related. > >> Please extend the Horde configuration to ask the site adminsitrators, >> if they want to have in /static pre-compressed .js and .css files, >> and if yes, if they want .gzip or .gz extension for those files. (or >> just create the .gz files in addition to the rest and that's all. > > This is not a Horde configuration issue, since it is not something we > can control out of the box. > >> Please mention this bug in >> http://www.horde.org/apps/horde/docs/PERFORMANCE , or write some >> alternative text to enable serving of pre-compression files on the >> webserver. > > Still don't know what you mean by "pre-compression". I know certain > servers (e.g. lighttpd) cache the gzip'd versions, but this is beyond > the scope of Horde or Horde's configuration.
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