Enh #6650: Add assets GZIP compression with Apache

.htaccess.dist

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # check if RewriteModule is availbale
 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
     Options +FollowSymLinks
-    
+
     RewriteEngine on
 
     # uncomment if you've installed HumHub into a subdirectory relative to your webroot & adjust RewriteBase to match the install point
@@ -42,3 +42,28 @@
         Deny from all
     </IfModule>
 </FilesMatch>
+
+# GZIP compression (mod_deflate must be enabled in Apache)
+<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
+  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
+</IfModule>

CHANGELOG-DEV.md

@@ -19,3 +19,4 @@ HumHub Changelog
 - Enh #5315: Default stream sort by `created_at` instead of `id`
 - Fix #6337: Update `created_at` after first publishing of content record
 - Fix #6631: Fix visibility of the method `Controller::getAccessRules()`
+- Enh #6650: Add assets GZIP compression with Apache