1099215 - Zeus needs to be updated on stage/prod to compress (gzip) certain content types instead of being handled by webheads

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Infrastructure, defect)

Description

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Originally reported in bug 1036802 that the REST API (and BzAPI extension) were not returning the correct status codes when compression was enabled in Apache on the webheads. Turning off gzip compression in the .htaccess for application/json content types resolved the issue. Having the compression is still useful to have so it can be configured on the Zeus load balancers to enable compression instead. After testing on bugzilla-dev it was observed that with Zeus compression enabled, the status codes are returned properly but not with Apache.

Please update the Zeus configuration for production/staging similar to devel and we will push the change to .htaccess in the BMO code to remove compression in Apache at the same time.

Not sure having it enabled in both places will cause problems so let's do this at the same time as we do a normal weekly push.

Content types to compress:
text/javascript
application/json
application/javascript
application/x-javascript      	
text/css      	
text/html      	
text/plain

and any others that make sense.

Thanks
dkl

Comment 1

[Kendall Libby [:fubar] (he/him)]

CC'ing :ashish since it's likely he'll do the push. <3

Comment 2

[Kendall Libby [:fubar] (he/him)]

dev, staging, and prod are all updated to the above list.