Gzip compression is not working even if it's enabled on the server

Question

I have installed php7 with apache2 modules :-

I have also tested php.ini file, it also shows gzip:enabled

Then I have enable GZIP Compression via .htaccess source: https://gtmetrix.com/enable-gzip-compression.html

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
  # Compress HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Text, XML and fonts
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml

  # Remove browser bugs (only needed for really old browsers)
  BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
  BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
  BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
  Header append Vary User-Agent
</IfModule>

But Gzip Compression is stil not working

How do you know it is not working? Or to put it a different way, what are you seeing that shows it is not working? — Don't Panic, Apr 26 '19 at 13:57
I have tested on https://gtmetrix.com/ it shows that Gzip is not enabled. — Aman Maurya, Apr 28 '19 at 09:26
[Is Apache configured to read `.htaccess`?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12202387/htaccess-not-working-apache) — Don't Panic, Apr 28 '19 at 14:09
Yes, I have put some junk in .htacces then website got an internal server error and when removed it worked fine, so that means .htaccess is configured to read by Apache — Aman Maurya, Apr 28 '19 at 21:38

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 28 '19 at 10:41

Try add this mod_gzip conf in .htaccess, maybe it help:

<ifModule mod_gzip.c>
    mod_gzip_on Yes
    mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
    mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
    mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
    mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
    mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
</ifModule>

Gzip compression is not working even if it's enabled on the server

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