How to set up Server Side Caching and Compression — Dedicated and VPS

I’ll be going over how to set up server side caching and compression on your account.  You’ll want to be able to access your .htaccess as well as your WHM in order to do this.

First log into your WHM

Once logged into your WHM, in the top left search bar type service and then go to the service configuration.

whm_service_search

Once on Service configuration go to Apache Configuration

whm_service

Go to Include Editor

whm_apache_config

Once in Include Editor, go under Post VirtualHost Include select All Versions

whm_include_edit

Now this will open up a text box, and you’ll want to paste this content in it:

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Then click on save.

And finally you just need to add this to your .htaccess

RewriteRule ^(css|js)/(.*)\.[0-9]+\.(.*)$ /$1/$2.$3 [L]

And you are good to go.  Do some tests at gtmetrix.com and see the magic.

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