Title: houmie's Replies | WordPress.org --- # houmie [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[W3 Total Cache] How to compress resources with gzip without minifying?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-compress-resources-with-gzip-without-minifying/) * Thread Starter [houmie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/) * (@houmie) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-compress-resources-with-gzip-without-minifying/#post-3439371) * Hi Frederick, * Just a recap the minifier was breaking the theme js files no matter if I used closure, YUI or default jsmin. * Hence I decided to ignore these theme js, but despite the gzip compression being enabled, I get a low score from google, saying I should enable compression. It seems W3C only applies compression if minified. * ``` Compressing the following resources with gzip could reduce their transfer size by 105.2KiB (77% reduction). Compressing https://cdn.chasebot.com/wp-content/themes/optimize/includes/js/prettyPhoto.js?ver=3.5.1 could save 23.2KiB (74% reduction). ``` * I see you have mentioned a fix in 0.9.2.8 * > – Fixed an issue with auto minify * Is any of these two problems fixed? * many thanks * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[W3 Total Cache] How to compress resources with gzip without minifying?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-compress-resources-with-gzip-without-minifying/) * Thread Starter [houmie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/) * (@houmie) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-compress-resources-with-gzip-without-minifying/#post-3439320) * Sure here it is: * ``` # BEGIN W3TC CDN location ~ \.(ttf|otf|eot|woff)$ { add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"; } # END W3TC CDN # BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache gzip on; gzip_types text/css text/x-component application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript text/x-js text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon; location ~ \.(css|htc|js|js2|js3|js4)$ { expires 31536000s; add_header Pragma "public"; add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"; add_header X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.7"; } location ~ \.(html|htm|rtf|rtx|svg|svgz|txt|xsd|xsl|xml)$ { expires 3600s; add_header Pragma "public"; add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"; add_header X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.7"; try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.html /index.php?$args; } location ~ \.(asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx|avi|bmp|class|divx|doc|docx|eot|exe|gif|gz|gzip|ico|jpg|jpeg|jpe|json|mdb|mid|midi|mov|qt|mp3|m4a|mp4|m4v|mpeg|mpg|mpe|mpp|otf|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|png|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|ra|ram|svg|svgz|swf|tar|tif|tiff|ttf|ttc|wav|wma|wri|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|zip)$ { expires 31536000s; add_header Pragma "public"; add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"; add_header X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.7"; } # END W3TC Browser Cache ``` * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[W3 Total Cache] How to compress resources with gzip without minifying?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-compress-resources-with-gzip-without-minifying/) * Thread Starter [houmie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/) * (@houmie) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-compress-resources-with-gzip-without-minifying/#post-3439147) * ``` gzip on; gzip_disable "msie6"; gzip_vary on; gzip_proxied any; gzip_comp_level 9; gzip_buffers 16 8k; gzip_http_version 1.1; gzip_min_length 0; gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript; ``` * This is the full settings with gzip types. The way I see it it is a bug. If you need any more information let me know please. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[W3 Total Cache] Minifier doesn't work with Nginx (W3 cache – Version 0.9.2.6)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minifier-doesnt-work-with-nginx-w3-cache-version-0926/) * Thread Starter [houmie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/) * (@houmie) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minifier-doesnt-work-with-nginx-w3-cache-version-0926/#post-3437031) * Thank you * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[W3 Total Cache] Minifier doesn't work with Nginx (W3 cache – Version 0.9.2.6)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minifier-doesnt-work-with-nginx-w3-cache-version-0926/) * Thread Starter [houmie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/) * (@houmie) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minifier-doesnt-work-with-nginx-w3-cache-version-0926/#post-3437027) * You are right. Restarting it has solved it. * So you are saying every time I enable/disable Minifier option, I have to restart nginx? * Thank you, houmie * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[W3 Total Cache] When CDN enabled -> https access breaks CSS formatting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-cdn-enabled-https-access-breaks-css-formatting/) * Thread Starter [houmie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/) * (@houmie) * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-cdn-enabled-https-access-breaks-css-formatting/#post-3434853) * Thanks Poti, actually around teh time you responded, I had my CDN off in order to update the website 🙂 I recon you couldn’t experience the problem. * Nonetheless by activating “Disable CDN on SSL pages”, it works now like a charm. * It is a bit of a shame that CDN doesn’t work with SSL. Is it intended or part of a bigger configuration or something I haven’t done yet? * Thanks * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[W3 Total Cache] – Nginx looses 30 Google page score](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-nginx-looses-30-google-page-score/) * Thread Starter [houmie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/) * (@houmie) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-nginx-looses-30-google-page-score/#post-3142851) * Thanks I will try that and see. 🙂 * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[W3 Total Cache] – Nginx looses 30 Google page score](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-nginx-looses-30-google-page-score/) * Thread Starter [houmie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/) * (@houmie) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-nginx-looses-30-google-page-score/#post-3142849) * Thanks Rahul, * The content of /var/www/example/htdocs/nginx.conf was already in full above. * And this is the vhost: * `depricated` * and this is /etc/nginx/nginx.conf * `depricated` Many thanks for your advice, * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[W3 Total Cache] – Nginx looses 30 Google page score](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-nginx-looses-30-google-page-score/) * Thread Starter [houmie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/) * (@houmie) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-nginx-looses-30-google-page-score/#post-3142844) * Thanks Rahul, I found a website that creates CSS sprites. * I will check out that discussion you have started. No problem with reloading the nginx config manually. * One last thing, there is no fault currently in my settings regarding expiry headers, correct? So is my assumption correct that I have to simply wait a bit longer until my score goes up? Or is there something else I am missing in that area? * Many Thanks, * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[W3 Total Cache] – Nginx looses 30 Google page score](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-nginx-looses-30-google-page-score/) * Thread Starter [houmie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/) * (@houmie) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-nginx-looses-30-google-page-score/#post-3142841) * [@rahul286](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rahul286/) * Thank you for your excellent blog. I have read it before and it was helpful getting nginx working so far. I was reading five other tutorials before I had found yours, and they all failed on me. 🙂 I am not sure if editing the vhost manually is really necessary where W3C does exactly that for you. Please carry on reading and I explain it later. * [@andreiguru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andreiguru/) * Thank you for the help. I am in fact using PHP-FPM 🙂 * This my setting: * ``` location ~ \.php$ { # With php5-fpm: fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; include fastcgi_params; } ``` * Regarding editing manually the vhost, I am not sure if that is necessary. Please continue reading the post. * Today I tested the analysis again and it jumped up to 76 points. * The “Enable Compression” is completely gone. “Leverage browser caching” is now yellow instead of red. * It says now: * > The following cacheable resources have a short freshness lifetime. Specify > an expiration at least one week in the future for the following resources: * Correct me if I am wrong, it seems the header expiry are set but are a bit fresh. So in a week’s time, this should become “old” enough and hence score higher? * Now to your setting suggestions. I think the only manual step is to include the nginx.conf that W3C is creating for you in the vhost. * `include /var/www/example/htdocs/nginx.conf;` * It seems W3C has already generated all settings in there that you have both suggested in the external conf file: * ``` # BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache gzip on; gzip_types text/css application/x-javascript text/x-component text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon; location ~ \.(css|js|htc)$ { expires 31536000s; add_header Pragma "public"; add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"; add_header X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.4"; } location ~ \.(html|htm|rtf|rtx|svg|svgz|txt|xsd|xsl|xml)$ { expires 3600s; add_header Pragma "public"; add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"; add_header X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.4"; } location ~ \.(asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx|avi|bmp|class|divx|doc|docx|eot|exe|gif|gz|gzip|ico|jpg|jpeg|jpe|mdb|mid|midi|mov|qt|mp3|m4a|mp4|m4v|mpeg|mpg|mpe|mpp|otf|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|png|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|ra|ram|svg|svgz|swf|tar|tif|tiff|ttf|ttc|wav|wma|wri|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|zip)$ { expires 31536000s; add_header Pragma "public"; add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"; add_header X-Powered-By "W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.4"; } # END W3TC Browser Cache # BEGIN W3TC Minify core rewrite ^/wp-content/w3tc/min/w3tc_rewrite_test$ /wp-content/w3tc/min/index.php?w3tc_rewrite_test=1 last; rewrite ^/wp-content/w3tc/min/(.+\.(css|js))$ /wp-content/w3tc/min/index.php?file=$1 last; # END W3TC Minify core ``` * Do you think it is missing anything there? Because I think its best to drive the settings from one place. Otherwise the manual settings could get in the way of W3C settings. Don’t you think? * So I have a few question for you gurus 🙂 * 1) How do I combine images into CSS sprites? (Another yellow) 2) If I go to [https://www.chasebot.com](https://www.chasebot.com) (secured connection) it is all garbled. Is that because of minify? because over http it is just fine. [http://www.chasebot.com](http://www.chasebot.com) 3) Now that you know my settings, is there any other setting missing you would recommend? * Many Thanks for your time, * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[W3 Total Cache] – Nginx looses 30 Google page score](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-nginx-looses-30-google-page-score/) * Thread Starter [houmie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/) * (@houmie) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-nginx-looses-30-google-page-score/#post-3142696) * Btw, I have managed to get minify working as well. Everything is now like it was with Apache. Why do I get those two red errors: * Leverage browser caching Enable compression * No difference in scroe. Still 57. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[WordPress HTTPS (SSL)] [Plugin: WordPress HTTPS (SSL)] After update to 3.0.3 – All PermaLinks show https :443](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-https-ssl-after-update-to-303-all-permalinks-show-https-443/) * Thread Starter [houmie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/) * (@houmie) * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-https-ssl-after-update-to-303-all-permalinks-show-https-443/#post-2710845) * actually uninstalling and reinstalling it makes it work. Strange! * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [CDN SET difference URL for SSL , W3 Total Cache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cdn-set-difference-url-for-ssl-w3-total-cache/) * [houmie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/) * (@houmie) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cdn-set-difference-url-for-ssl-w3-total-cache/#post-2289428) * I completely agree. Right now it is not possible using SSL with W3 Cache + Amazon CloudFront. We need a solution to this. * Many Thanks, Houman * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Need a Guru's advice on how to do this page template](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-a-gurus-advice-on-how-to-do-this-page-template/) * Thread Starter [houmie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/) * (@houmie) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-a-gurus-advice-on-how-to-do-this-page-template/#post-2545675) * Dear Abinav, * Thank you so much for your kind help. I was investigating this issue for four days without any solution. * Thanks god, I saw your code before the moderator kindly deleted it. * I have it now almost working * [http://venuscloud.com/crm-software/](http://venuscloud.com/crm-software/) * However for some reason the right column goes to the bottom instead. I don’t understand why. May you be able to have a look at the source code and enlighten me please? * Many Thanks for your kind help, Regards, Houman * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [[Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Get error when setting Browsercache Set expires header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-get-error-when-setting-browsercache-set-expires-header/) * Thread Starter [houmie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/) * (@houmie) * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-get-error-when-setting-browsercache-set-expires-header/#post-2500131) * I am pretty much stuck on this and googling for two days without any clear solution to this. * ``` [Wed Jan 11 07:29:35 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.3.2-1ubuntu4.11 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8k configured -- resuming normal operations [Wed Jan 11 07:29:38 2012] [alert] [client xxxxx] /var/www/xxx/wp-content/w3tc/min/.htaccess: ExpiresActive not allowed here [Wed Jan 11 07:29:42 2012] [alert] [client xxxxx] /var/www/xxx/wp-content/w3tc/min/.htaccess: ExpiresActive not allowed here [Wed Jan 11 07:33:36 2012] [alert] [client xxxxx] /var/www/xxx/.htaccess: ExpiresActive not allowed here, referer: https://www.xxx.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_browsercache [Wed Jan 11 07:33:36 2012] [alert] [client xxxxx] /var/www/xxx/.htaccess: ExpiresActive not allowed here ``` * I have already sudo a2enmod expires * The moment I insert this into the .htaccess file I get the 500 Error again: * ``` ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 hour" ``` Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/replies/page/2/?output_format=md)