Javescript compression in .htaccess

[sheixt]

I've used the 'compression' section of the .htacess file & noticed (thanks to gzipwtf.com) that the Javascript compression doesn't seem to work. It would seem there is a missing reference to text/javascript.

Here is the updated code snippet that I used, hope it helps:

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

    # Force compression for mangled headers.
    # http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/12/pushing-beyond-gzipping
    <IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
        <IfModule mod_headers.c>
            SetEnvIfNoCase ^(Accept-EncodXng|X-cept-Encoding|X{15}|~{15}|-{15})$ ^((gzip|deflate)\s*,?\s*)+|[X~-]{4,13}$ 

HAVE_Accept-Encoding
            RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding "gzip,deflate" env=HAVE_Accept-Encoding
        </IfModule>
    </IfModule>

    # Compress all output labeled with one of the following MIME-types
    # (for Apache versions below 2.3.7, you don't need to enable `mod_filter`
    #  and can remove the `<IfModule mod_filter.c>` and `</IfModule>` lines
    #  as `AddOutputFilterByType` is still in the core directives).
    <IfModule mod_filter.c>
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/atom+xml \
                                      application/javascript \
                                      application/json \
                                      application/rss+xml \
                                      application/vnd.ms-fontobject \
                                      application/x-font-ttf \
                                      application/x-web-app-manifest+json \
                                      application/xhtml+xml \
                                      application/xml \
                                      font/opentype \
                                      image/svg+xml \
                                      image/x-icon \
                                      text/css \
                                      text/javascript \
                                      text/html \
                                      text/plain \
                                      text/x-component \
                                      text/xml
    </IfModule>

</IfModule>

[This has been migrated from https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/issues/1592]

[alrra]

@sheixt Like I said before, can you try to include also the "media types" section (or at least this line) and tell me if that takes care of it. Also, make sure you have mod_mime enabled. Thanks!

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Note to self: As quite a few people only use parts of the .htaccess file, it may be useful to also include text/javascript in the configs.

[alrra]

Note to self: As quite a few people only use parts of the .htaccess file, it may be useful to also include text/javascript in the configs.

Done in db69327.