How to enable gzip compression in Tomcat
Add the following attributes to the <Connector> in Tomcat’s server.xml to enable gzip compression of responses at line no.- 70 :-
# vim apache-tomcat/conf/server.xml
compression=”on” compressionMinSize=”2048″
compressableMimeType=”text/html,text/xml,text/csv,text/css,text/javascript”
Before
<Connector port=”8080″ protocol=”HTTP/1.1″
connectionTimeout=”20000″
redirectPort=”8443″ /
After
<Connector port=”8080″ protocol=”HTTP/1.1″
connectionTimeout=”20000″
redirectPort=”8443″
compression=”on” compressionMinSize=”2048″
compressableMimeType=”text/html,text/xml,text/csv,text/css,text/javascript” />