To enable HTTP compression for Maximo, follow the steps below:

  • Stop HTTP server
  • Make a backup copy of the file: IBM/HTTPServer/conf/httpd.conf
  • Edit the httpd.conf file, enable the following two lines:
LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so           LoadModule filter_module modules/mod_filter.so
  • Add the following lines to the bottom of the file:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/javascript
 
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
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DeflateCompressionLevel 4
  • Start HTTP server