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Archive for June, 2009
Apache performance tuning – Expires Headers
With the advent of YSlow, we should all now be aware of adding expires headers to our web servers. For my purposes, I wanted to enable it globally, then fine-tune per Virtual Host. In my Apache httpd.conf, I added the following directives: <ifmodule mod_expires.c> <filesmatch \".(jpg|gif|png|css|js|swf|ico)$\"> ExpiresActive on ExpiresDefault \"access plus 1 year\" </filesmatch> </ifmodule> [...]
Utilizing mod_deflate & zlib for web performance
Every webmaster is looking for ways to enhance performance. I’ve researched the web and found some hits and some misses. Here are a couple changes that have dramatically improved Apache and PHP performance for me. Of course, this is my implementation, and I’d like to hear from others how I could improve.
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