# Gzip component with mongrel server

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gzip-component-with-mongrel-server/153604>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 19, 2008, 10:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gzip-component-with-mongrel-server/153604 "2008-11-19T10:03:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![ankitparekh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@ankitparekh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ankitparekh)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 10:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gzip-component-with-mongrel-server/153604/1 "2008-11-19T10:03:08Z")

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I want to enable gzip component on my site  
and i m using mongrel server  
can you please tell me how to do it

thanks

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**Author:** ![ankitparekh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@ankitparekh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ankitparekh)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 10:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gzip-component-with-mongrel-server/153604/2 "2008-11-19T10:26:46Z")

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On 19 Nov 2008, at 09:03, Ankit P. wrote:

> I want to enable gzip component on my site  
> and i m using mongrel server  
> can you please tell me how to do it

If you’re proxying through apache or nginx then the easiest way is to  
get them to do gzipping. I don’t believe mongrel will do it for you  
out of the box.

Fred

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**Author:** ![ankitparekh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@ankitparekh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ankitparekh)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gzip-component-with-mongrel-server/153604/3 "2008-11-19T13:47:44Z")

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thanks for the reply

now i have configured with nginx and i have written the code for header  
expiry …now i want to implement both memcache and header expiry both  
together but when i run mem cache header expiry stops working

has neone configured both the things to gether?

thanks

Peter De Berdt wrote:

> On 19 Nov 2008, at 10:25, Frederick C. wrote:
> 
> > > I want to enable gzip component on my site  
> > > and i m using mongrel server  
> > > can you please tell me how to do it
> > 
> > If you’re proxying through apache or nginx then the easiest way is to  
> > get them to do gzipping. I don’t believe mongrel will do it for you  
> > out of the box.
> 
> You might also have a look at a search engine called “Google”. Quite a  
> few people use it nowadays to find information quickly. For example, a  
> simple google search on “mongrel output compression” gave me this as  
> the first result, “mongrel compression” yields the same page as the  
> fourth result:  
> [http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongrel-compres/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongrel-compres/)  
> If you’re in doubt, that was a little bit of sarcasm and a pretty  
> please to at least have a little search before posting these kinds of  
> questions.
> 
> There was also a solution packed in a rails plugin a while ago. Don’t  
> know if it still works, and it’s certainly not as good a solution as  
> apache or nginx, but you could try the better output compression  
> plugin ([http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/](http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/)  
> better\_output\_compression). The big question however is if it will  
> actually improve performance or slow it down.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Peter De Berdt

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**Author:** ![ankitparekh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@ankitparekh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ankitparekh)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gzip-component-with-mongrel-server/153604/4 "2008-11-19T12:27:10Z")

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On 19 Nov 2008, at 10:25, Frederick C. wrote:

> > I want to enable gzip component on my site  
> > and i m using mongrel server  
> > can you please tell me how to do it
> 
> If you’re proxying through apache or nginx then the easiest way is to  
> get them to do gzipping. I don’t believe mongrel will do it for you  
> out of the box.

You might also have a look at a search engine called “Google”. Quite a  
few people use it nowadays to find information quickly. For example, a  
simple google search on “mongrel output compression” gave me this as  
the first result, “mongrel compression” yields the same page as the  
fourth result:  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongrel-compres/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/mongrel-compres/)  
If you’re in doubt, that was a little bit of sarcasm and a pretty  
please to at least have a little search before posting these kinds of  
questions.

There was also a solution packed in a rails plugin a while ago. Don’t  
know if it still works, and it’s certainly not as good a solution as  
apache or nginx, but you could try the better output compression  
plugin ([http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/](http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/)  
better\_output\_compression). The big question however is if it will  
actually improve performance or slow it down.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt