Drupal 7 + LiteSpeed, problem with "Aggregate JavaScript files"

[bmalen]

I enabled "Aggregate JavaScript files" in my Drupal 7 website but this produced a problem with javascript.

 

I checked the HTTP response of one of the javascript files and it appeared that it was getting compressed twice:

 

Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: application/x-gzip

 

So I guess Drupal is compressing the file then LiteSpeed is compressing it again.

 

I edited my .htaccess (generated by Drupal) and commented everything under "Rules to correctly serve gzip compressed CSS and JS files."

 

This seemed to fix things. I checked the HTTP response again, all looks good:

 

Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: application/javascript

 

This is as much as I could find on the issue http://drupal.org/node/986558

 

I am no expert on this issue and I can't find any clear instructions, so I am not sure if what I did is the "correct" way to fix the problem. If anyone else is running Drupal on LiteSpeed and has come across this issue, I would appreciate your feedback.

[Michael D.]

LiteSpeed is configured to automatically gzip JS if the browser requests gzipped content so any scripts/directives that force gzip compression on can cause issues. If you've disabled it in Drupal then you shouldn't have any issues.