I would like to enable brotli compression on my website. I'm currently serving it from the "PHP+Apache symbolic link" application.

I've tried adding this to my .htaccess file:
"AddOutputFilterByType BROTLI_COMPRESS text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript application/javascript"
That line is taken from here: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_brotli.html#recommended

Adding that line gives me an HTTP 500 internal server error when I try to access my site. I wonder if mod_brotli is enabled?

I would also like to pre-compress the content using this sort of config: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_brotli.html#precompressed

It looks like that method does not require brotli on the server (and of course should be faster) so perhaps that is the way to go?

Thanks,
Stephen.

4 days later

To partially answer my own question, I can confirm that the pre-compression config in the second link work just fine. If you are looking to make things as fast as possible and you have a static website I would imagine that's the best way.

  • sean replied to this.

    scp hey, sorry for not following up on this! Glad you found a solution that works for you 🙂

    We're looking at enabling brotli compression on the Nginx front-end at some point, so any type of app can take advantage of it.

    At the moment we can enable gzip compression for any app upon request, just contact support with the details.

        a year later

        sean What's the current status with respect to server-side support for Brotli compression for static apps?

            vsajip still unavailable, I'll add a note about your comment to our internal ticket.

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