General Queries and GZIP tips

[stanleys]

Which is more efficient? vBulletin's internal gZip option or mod_gzip or mod_deflate?

[Dismounted]

mod_gzip = mod_deflate

The only difference is that mod_gzip is used in Apache 1.3, while mod_deflate is used in Apache 2.x.

They are both fairly efficient (if you have set it up correctly).

[Jase2]

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Regards Jason

[valdet]

I have looked through my phpinfo for deflate and I found it on three places:

Can someone please advise if this is the same as mod_deflate as Dismounted has been suggesting. If yes then is it safe for me to disable gzip in vB settings.?


Here are my settings from phpinfo file:

Apache Environment

HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip,deflate


 HTTP Headers Information

Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate


 PHP Variables

_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING"]gzip,deflate

Thanks

[Jase2]

No, I believe that is different.

Regards Jason

[snakes1100]

That is zlib, which can be set in php.ini and when set to 1 will deflate/compress ALL pages on a server if they are supported.

It is more efficient to deflate with apache.