[Koha-devel] Apache bandwidth tuning in default config

[Tomás]

I've been playing recently with some firefox extensions for web developers:

FireBug: https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/addon/1843
PageSpeed: http://code.google.com/intl/es-ES/speed/page-speed/index.html
YSlow: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

and found that enabling certain options in the koha's apache
VirtualHosts configuration would improve a lot koha's performance in
bandwidth use. Only the opac startup page bandwidht usage goes from
368.5K  to 118.3K.


Enable http compression using mod_deflate
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Document this command for enabling this in Debian/Ubuntu

# a2enmod deflate

and add this lines to koha-http.conf in both VirtualHost definitions

   SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
   SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip

I specify not to apply useless compression to compresed images.
Further options could be used. See
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html


Enable better caching features by setting explicit expiration far in
the future for static content using mod_deflate
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Document this command for enabling this in Debian/Ubuntu

# a2enmod expires

and add this lines to koha-http.conf in both VirtualHost definitions

   ExpiresActive On
   ExpiresDefault "modification plus 1 year"

as mod_expires only applies to files in the filesystem it is safe to
rely on modification date. This could be fine-tuned, for example on a
per filetype basis (see
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_expires.html).

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PageSpeed in particular offers some recommendation on image sizes and
provides an optimal image file for substitution. This could be
analised.

To+.

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