This functionality was misplaced in mod_gzip anyway. In Apache 2.x, you do that with content negotiation. Specifically, you need to enable MultiViews with the Options directive and you need to specify your encoding types with the AddEncoding directive.
Both these modules do the same thing: add gzip compression on the fly. The one you should use these days is mod_deflate – it is the more modern and recommended one and is distributed with Apache. mod_gzip was an older third-party implementation and there is no good reason to use it anymore. Don’t be fooled … Read more
Try this : #################### # GZIP COMPRESSION # #################### SetOutputFilter DEFLATE AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/plain text/xml application/x-javascript application/x-httpd-php BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip