Can not use deflate/compression with Apache 2.4 on AWS Lightsail

mehmetdilek 2021-03-29 23:10:42 UTC #1

Keywords: General - AWS - How to - Other
Description:
Hello,

I am using Apache 2.4.46 (unix) on AWS Lightsail for my Angular 10 website. I am not able to achieve deflate/compression.

/opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/httpd.conf has the following entries:

LoadModule filter_module modules/mod_filter.so
LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Header append Vary User-Agent

Thanks for helping,

Mehmet

davidg 2021-03-30 07:58:08 UTC #2

Hello @mehmetdilek,

We have a Support Tool that will gather relevant information for us to analyze your configuration and logs. Could you please execute it on the machine where the stack is running by following the steps described in the guide below?

How to Run the Bitnami Support Tool in a cloud image or virtual machine
How to Run the Bitnami Support Tool when using a native installer

Please note that you need to paste the code ID that is shown at the end.

mehmetdilek 2021-03-30 09:44:42 UTC #3

9f1508be-dffa-de99-a99a-8b66f0deb640

Thank you for helping...

davidg 2021-03-31 09:58:47 UTC #4

Hello @mehmetdilek,

Your Apache configuration looks good. You can check if mod_deflate is enabled (it is by default) by executing the command below:

apachectl -M | grep deflate

Do this work for you?

We have a previous case that may help:
https://community.bitnami.com/t/how-can-i-get-gzip-compression-benefit-under-bitnami-wordpress-multisite-windows-installer-installed-webserver/7353

I have also found this specific case for Angular:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45463923/no-gzip-compression-in-response-header-using-angular-4-litespeed-cpanel

Regards

mehmetdilek 2021-03-31 11:20:55 UTC #5

Hello,

I did run apachectl -M | grep deflate, deflate already there and running. I have also gone through the posts and many others but still no luck.

One interesting thing is that DocumentRoot is "/opt/bitnami/apache/htdocs" but htdocs has an empty intex.html file. Does this tell anything? I do not know.

Thanks,

Mehmet

davidg 2021-04-01 09:50:04 UTC #6

Hello @mehmetdilek,

It is difficult to debug it with the result of the support tool since you are using a custom Angular app, and we don't have all the context.

This is the default DocumentRoot for a MEAN stack, but you may need to change it depending on where you are serving your app. In case it helps, this is our documentation:
https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/infrastructure/mean/administration/create-custom-application-nodejs/

Regards

mehmetdilek 2021-04-09 19:22:32 UTC #7

Hello,

I have solved the issue and website load performance now shows 81% instead of 24% before compression. The issue was Angular using port 80 and Apache using port 8080. I have changed Angular to 4200 and Apache to 80.

Thanks,

Mehmet

davidg 2021-04-12 09:50:42 UTC #8

Thanks for sharing your solution @mehmetdilek. We are glad you manage to solve it

Regards

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