IIS HTTP compression w/ gzip wasn’t working

Posted on by David Vassallo

I had followed the rather simple commands as per the microsoft KB article here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/502ef631-3695-4616-b268-cbe7cf1351ce.mspx?mfr=true The server was still not compressing anything and the temporary compression directory remained empty. This was really frustrating, until I ran across this article: http://panvega.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/http-compression-in-iis/ There is an extra step that technet seems to have forgotten. The above site nails … Continue reading IIS HTTP compression w/ gzip wasn’t working