Posted on 4/13/2008 5:32:00 PM by sbeeh
1. Open up IIS and right-click on the Web Sites node and go to Properties. Click on the Service tab. As shown in FIGURE 1
1. Check compress application files checkbox
2. Check compress static files checkbox
3. Go to the Web Service Extensions node. Right-click in the right pane, and click Add a new Web service extension
5. Click on Add. Choose C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\gzip.dll (your path may be different, but that is doubtful), and click OK. Check the Set extension status to Allowed check box, and click OK.
6. Open up Windows Explorer and go to C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv. Find MetaBase.xml and make a copy (you can just highlight it and do a Ctrl-C, then a Ctrl-P to make a copy of MetaBase.xml). Now open up MetaBase.xml in a text editor.
7. Find the <IIsCompressionScheme/> section. Be careful, there are two sections here: one for deflate and one for gzip. We want gzip so the Location attribute of the element will have the following value: Location ="/LM/W3SVC/Filters/Compression/gzip"
8. For this example, just add aspx to the HcScriptFileExtensions section as I did, but don’t try to save. It won’t work because the file is locked by default if IIS is running.
9. Final step is to do an IIS shutdown and restart by right-clicking in Internet Information Services node and then click All Tasks, Restart IIS. You can test at http://www.pipeboost.com, as shown in FIGURE 4.
