gzip compression: howto

[JoshFink]

Ok.. I would love some help on this. I run vbPortal.. Ok no big deal, but the front page is not gzip enabled.

So I figure to make it gzip enabled you put the

ob_start("ob_gzhandler");

at the beginning of the index.php

and

ob_clean_end();

at the end of the index.php file.. Right?

Well, it just gives me a totally blank page.

Any thoughts on this? yes, I could post over at vbPortal, but I think it's more of an "any external page to vBulletin" kind of answer correct?

Thanks for all the help

Josh