Best way to compress the HTTP?

[purpler]

Hi, i need to know hat is the best way to compress the HTTP traffic via .htaccess.
I tried:

php_flag zlib.output_compression On

- Gives me Error 500

php_value zlib.output_compression  On

- Gives me Error 500

<ifModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
</ifModule>

- Seems to not work, tested with several online gzip check services.

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

- Seems to not work

Only thing that worked is to handle all HTML files by PHP:

#put this in .htaccess

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .html

#put this before any code in every HTML page:

<?php ob_start( 'ob_gzhandler' );?>

Please help me and clear up a bit what is the best working solution here at x10hosting.com and generally!
Thanks in advance!

[Zubair]

***Moved to Programming Help***

[misson]

If you had searched the forum for your topics of interest, you would have discovered that setting php options in .htaccess isn't supported on free hosts, and that you can try the mod_gzip config options.

[purpler]

thanks for your suggestions but if you read the entire post i wrote you'd see that i already tried that method and that it doesn't worked.
Anyways, i found the way to compress the traffic without using .htaccess.
Thanks for good will anyways!

[b3n199]

could you share how to compress site without rewrite .htaccess file?