You could set the environment variable no-gzip for that directory/type of file: # for URL paths that begin with “/foo/bar/” SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/foo/bar/ no-gzip=1 # for files that end with “.py” <FilesMatch \.py$> SetEnv no-gzip 1 </FilesMatch>
This is a known bug in Apache. See Apache bug #45023, and summary of Apache 304 etags and mod_deflate. Rebuilding from svn will fix the issue. The resolution was to revert the change that appended “-gzip” to the etag. However, there are associated HTTP compliance problems. If you can’t rebuild Apache, there is a suggested … Read more
This functionality was misplaced in mod_gzip anyway. In Apache 2.x, you do that with content negotiation. Specifically, you need to enable MultiViews with the Options directive and you need to specify your encoding types with the AddEncoding directive.
Try this : #################### # GZIP COMPRESSION # #################### SetOutputFilter DEFLATE AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/plain text/xml application/x-javascript application/x-httpd-php BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip