Changes between Version 20 and Version 21 of FileCompression

Timestamp:

Jan 17, 2012, 11:41:06 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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FileCompression

@@ -21 +21 @@
 Use the 'min_core_client_version' entry in config.xml to enforce this.
 
-==== Apache mod_deflate ====
-You can use the Apache 2.0 mod_deflate module to automatically compress files on the fly.
-See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html.
-This method will work with all BOINC clients, but it will do compression only for 5.4+ clients.
-
-You can use this in conjunction with gzip encoding because the mod_deflate module
-allows you to exempt certain filetypes from on-the-fly compression.
-
-This method increases CPU load on the web server, but this is typically not significant.
-
-==== Configuration File ====
-
-You'll need to modify your `httpd.conf` file; example:
-
-{{{
-# Enable module
-LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so
-
-# Log file compression
-DeflateFilterNote Input instream
-DeflateFilterNote Output outstream
-DeflateFilterNote Ratio ratio
-
-LogFormat '"%r" %{outstream}n/%{instream}n (%{ratio}n%%)' deflate
-CustomLog logs/deflate_log deflate
-
-# Use low settings for compression to make sure impact on server is low
-DeflateMemLevel 2
-DeflateCompressionLevel 2
-
+{{{
 # Add encoding type
 AddEncoding x-gzip .gz
@@ -79 +50 @@
 This configuration tells Apache to redirect to the statically compressed files
 if the extension is vmdk, exe, dll, or pdb.
-All other files are compressed on-the-fly from the download direction except for files
+All other files are compressed on-the-fly from the download directory except for files
 that end with `gz`,`gif`,`jpg`,`jpeg` and `png`.
 
@@ -92 +63 @@
 This configuration tells Apache to compress only the file types `.faa` and `.mask`
 served from the download directory.
+==== Apache mod_deflate ====
+You can use the Apache 2.0 mod_deflate module to automatically compress files on the fly.
+See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html.
+This method will work with all BOINC clients, but it will do compression only for 5.4+ clients.
+
+You can use this in conjunction with gzip encoding because the mod_deflate module
+allows you to exempt certain filetypes from on-the-fly compression.
+
+This method increases CPU load on the web server, but this is typically not significant.
+
+You'll need to modify your `httpd.conf` file; example:
+
+{{{
+# Enable module
+LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so
+
+# Log file compression
+DeflateFilterNote Input instream
+DeflateFilterNote Output outstream
+DeflateFilterNote Ratio ratio
+
+LogFormat '"%r" %{outstream}n/%{instream}n (%{ratio}n%%)' deflate
+CustomLog logs/deflate_log deflate
+
+# Use low settings for compression to make sure impact on server is low
+DeflateMemLevel 2
+DeflateCompressionLevel 2
+}}}
+
 
 === Compression of output files === #compress-output