Re: Gzipped debian docs via apache localhost
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.user as well.
Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu> writes:
> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 12:55 +0100, John Devereux wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Years ago, when I started using debian, the system documentation was
>> available from my browser using http://localhost/doc/
>>
>> Even though most files were .gz, they got automatically decompressed
>> so that clicking on them served up a text file directly in the browser
>> window.
>>
>> In recent years this does not work, I click on the link and then have
>> to uncompress the file in a separate step.
>>
>> Does anyone know why?
>
> No.
>
> But try this:
>
> # a2enmod deflate
>
> or
>
> % sudo a2enmod deflate
"Module deflate already enabled"...
I should have asked before, does it work correctly (on-the-fly
decompression of the text) for others? Or did they change it?
--
John Devereux
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