AVAS Technology Blog
Compressing all HTML pages with Apache2 on AWS
By: System Admin 01/29/2013
The Apache2 web server has two mods which can be used to compress data sent to the client (ie browser); mod_deflate and mod_gzip. The gzip mod is more versatile but more challenging to setup. For simple compression of HTML, CSS and JavaScript files, the deflate mod works just file. Compression is particularly important on Amazon Web Services (AWS) because:
HTML is very redundant and bulky Smaller files are sent to the client faster AWS charges you based upon OUTPUT bandwidth; smaller files = less bandwidth usage per file
Simple activation of mod_deflate
...Installing and Configuring PHP on AWS Amazon Linux AMI with Apache2
By: System Admin 10/03/2012
Apache2 is the standard Linux web server. It deals with all of the http and https requests sent to the server and complies PHP scripts. PHP is a simpler programming language which offers the power of the more complex object orientated languages without some of the more complex data management issues. PHP is commonly used to develop dynamic web content, especially content based upon a database like MySQL. In a practical sense, you must have Apache installed to use PHP on your server. If you do not have Apache currently installed, instructions can be found here. Installing PHP These instructions assume you have already setup an AWS instance and have an SSH client (like PuTTY) available.
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