What configuration is responsible for a working deflate / gzip?

Question

I had a look in my (standard configurated) httpd.conf on my Apache 2.2 webserver and I was not able to identify what configuration is responsibly that gzip compression is working fine?

I searched for keywords like DEFLATE, AddOutputFilterByType or mod_deflate. But none of these keywords are in my httpd.conf.

Can anyone tell me, why compression works fine with the standard configuration? What configuration line is responsible for that?

Answer 1

I found the solution: A mod_deflate code in my .htaccess file in a subdirectory on my WordPress blog (Plugin WPSuperCache and Autoptimize) were responsible for the working gzip compression.

Answer 2

You're looking for exactly the right thing, but you're probably not looking in all of your configuration files. You're probably using a multi-file layout, or looking in the complete wrong file.

Try looking for Include, or load mod_info to review the config that way in merged form.