How to check if my shared hosting provider has mod_gzip installed?

apache, gzip, php

Solution

You can check that with either PHP’s `apache_get_modules` or `phpinfo`.

If you want to compress your output, you might want to try the output buffer handler `ob_gzhandler`. It automatically determines what type of content encoding the browser will accept ("gzip", "deflate" or none at all) and will return its output accordingly. Just put `ob_start('ob_gzhandler')` at the start of your script file (before anything is put out) and it does the rest.

Or you simply use Apache’s mod_deflate that even can compress static files that are directly passed through to the client.

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