Enabling up HTTP Compression for Maximo

To enable HTTP compression for Maximo, follow the steps below:

• Stop HTTP server
• Make a backup copy of \IBM\HTTPServer\conf\httpd.conf
• Edit httpd.conf:
• Enable the following two lines:

            LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so

            LoadModule filter_module modules/mod_filter.so

• Add the following lines to the bottom of the file:

            AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/javascript

            BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

            BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip

            BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

            #Highest 9 - Lowest 1

            DeflateCompressionLevel 4

• Start HTTP server