Tomcat 7 GZIP compression not working
If Tomcat is fronted by Apache on port 80, you will need to enable compression in Apache itself. The compression in Tomcat will only work if you access it directly on port 8080.
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Redirect HTTP to HTTPS:PORT in Tomcat
You can do it to every app deployed to tomcat by adding this to the end of tomcat_dir/conf/web.xml: <security-constraint> <web-resource-collection> <web-resource-name>Entire Application</web-resource-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </web-resource-collection> <!– auth-constraint goes here if you requre authentication –> <user-data-constraint> <transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee> </user-data-constraint> </security-constraint> So you don’t have to change it on the web.xml of your webapp. That should work, assuming you … Read more