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Bad Behavior + Wp-cache + Gzip Solution

So while installing some nice spam protection, I came across some interesting conflicts between.

1. Bad Behavior (The spam filter plugin)
2. WP-Cache (The Speed the site up plugin)
3. GZIP (The zip the page and server it to you faster feature built into Wordpress).

Basically wp-cache doesn’t work with gzip and bad behavior doesn’t work with wp-cache.. how to fix this?

1st: Go out and download the newest versions of both wp-cache 2 & Bad Behavior

2nd: Turn off gzip in the options.

3rd: Edit: wp-cache-phase1.php
Add This line:
if ( extension_loaded(‘zlib’) ) ob_start(‘ob_gzhandler’);

Before this:
foreach ($meta->headers as $header) {
header($header);

4th: Edit: /wp-content/advanced-cache.php

Add:
if ( extension_loaded(‘zlib’) ) ob_start(‘ob_gzhandler’);

Before this:
foreach ($meta->headers as $header) {

Now everything shouldu play together nice. Your site should BLAZE and be protected.

Enjoy :)

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21 Responses to “Bad Behavior + Wp-cache + Gzip Solution”

  1. Chris Stormer
    July 9th, 2006 at 12:19 am

    Maybe I should add some graphics, this isn’t nearly as nice looking as I had hoped. ;)

  2. SigT
    August 25th, 2006 at 8:37 pm

    Parches para WP-Cache

    WP-Cache 2.0 es un sistema de cache de páginas realizado por Ricardo Galli (con algo de testeo y documentación por mí parte en los inicios ;) ) imprescindible para aliviar la carga del servidor y los tiempos de carga de los blogs basados en WordPres…

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  6. Nick Georgakis
    October 22nd, 2006 at 8:48 am

    Hello Chris, You might be interested checking out an enhanced way of adding gzip support to wp-cache , which caches the gzip output , avoiding to compress it again every time a client requests it.
    You can find it
    here
    If you could try it / verify it works that would be great!

  7. Ajay D'Souza
    October 29th, 2006 at 8:59 pm

    Nice short tutorial Chris.

    Do you have BB and WP-Cache running here?

  8. Chris Stormer
    November 28th, 2006 at 6:34 pm

    Ajay,

    Actually I turned off BB mostly because I was catching most of the spam with other menthods and I’m always trying to eek out every ounce of speed I can snag.

  9. Ajay
    February 7th, 2007 at 12:11 am

    Hi,

    i’m just wondering about advanced-cache.php , isn’t the wp-content/ supposed to be just a symbolic link?

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  12. pufone
    July 26th, 2007 at 12:55 am

    Hello!

    Does this solution involve compressing the cached file each time it’s accesed?

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  15. ivan
    August 17th, 2007 at 11:30 am

    content is compressed each time, but many tests show that this actually works faster since there’s less output to send out, than with uncompressed content, thus pages are served faster

    ps. Chris, this page is all broken in my firefox ? Sidebar is covering the part of the content…

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    October 13th, 2007 at 7:05 pm

    Step 5: Activate Gzip ;)

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    November 5th, 2008 at 10:32 pm

    In terms of bonalnoy erudition – grammotno done!

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