Hi all,

I have a VPS with Linode and I have installed all the software necessary (mysql, apache2, php5) on Ubuntu 14.04 x64 to host joomla and wordpress websites. Wordpress websites work fine, even with W3 Total Cache's minify settings on.

Example:

A minified JS resource from my wordpress site

http://salvatoremarchetti.com/alukal/wp … bhc_PFw.js">http://salvatoremarchetti.com/alukal/wp-content/cache/minify/000000/jY5BDsIwDAQVDfqi5BJrMhgJ23stILXEygXbpxWWu1oZwnGTmsjM9AuzsIldxSIamG04WZB8F1lAiOh6LVNKP2OEo4VuETp6dzdtk7t8Y1NqCcGzrNymVawlFrrKrUIv24BDQj-ARm18OTpl8AIqZIwhvnRMqcEQXmsx3gkcr0KB04BUZi6l7jQcOBebhc_PFw.js

The problem is on the Joomla site with jbetolo installed. The configuration.php has the setting: public $gzip = '1';

However the gzipped resources in the source code do not work. When accessed they throw a "Restricted access" error.

Example:

Not working example of new site

http://www.salvatoremarchetti.com/inasi … ag=5184000">http://www.salvatoremarchetti.com/inasia/index.php?option=com_jbetolo&task=serve&gz=1&file=5175fb22261da0a0d8d54a9b8e645351.js&type=js&ag=5184000

This site is a clone of the original site (a shared server which I will have to leave soon) where the same resource works perfectly.

Working example on original site:

http://www.associazioneculturaleinasia. … ag=5184000">http://www.associazioneculturaleinasia.it/index.php?option=com_jbetolo&task=serve&gz=1&file=f5d7e192be8280b08cdcd16ecaa1b05b.js&type=js&ag=5184000

On the VPS server where I have problems I have used the following commands to install zlib and zip:

In /etc/apt/sources.list I added to the bottom: deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu saucy main universe

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install zlibc zlib1g zlib1g-dev zlib-bin libgcrypt11-dev

sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

(here I made the following changes)

zlib.output_compression = On

zlib.outputcompressionlevel = -1

implicit_flush = Off

cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1

extension=zip.so

sudo apt-get install apache2-mpm-worker libapache2-mod-fastcgi php5-fpm

sudo a2enmod actions alias fastcgi

Then in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/fastcgi.conf

I inserted:

AddHandler php5-fcgi .php

Action php5-fcgi /php5-fcgi

Alias /php5-fcgi /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi

FastCgiExternalServer /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi -socket /var/run/php5-fpm.sock -pass-header Authorization

sudo service apache2 restart && sudo service php5-fpm restart

sudo mkdir /var/www/cgi-bin

sudo touch /var/www/cgi-bin/php5.fcgi

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/cgi-bin

sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/fastcgi.conf

This file currently looks like this:

AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi

FastCgiWrapper /usr/lib/apache2/suexec

FastCgiIpcDir /var/lib/apache2/fastcgi

Alias /php5.fcgi /var/www/cgi-bin/php5.fcgi

AddType application/x-httpd-fastphp5 .php

Action application/x-httpd-fastphp5 /php5.fcgi

FastCGIExternalServer /var/www/cgi-bin/php5.fcgi -socket /var/run/php5-fpm.sock

Order allow,deny

Order deny,allow

and changed my conf file: /etc/apache2/sites-available/salvatoremarchetti.com.conf

domain: salvatoremarchetti.com

public: /home/myusername/public/salvatoremarchetti.com/

# Admin email, Server Name (domain name), and any aliases

ServerAdmin webmaster@salvatoremarchetti.com

ServerName salvatoremarchetti.com

ServerAlias salvatoremarchetti.com

ServerAlias http://www.salvatoremarchetti.com

Index file and Document Root (where the public files are located)

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.htm

DocumentRoot /home/myusername/public/salvatoremarchetti.com/public

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

AllowOverride all

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

Require all granted

Log file locations

LogLevel warn

ErrorLog /home/myusername/public/salvatoremarchetti.com/log/error.log

CustomLog /home/myusername/public/salvatoremarchetti.com/log/access.log combined

ExpiresActive on

ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 60 days"

ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 60 days"

ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 60 days"

ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 60 days"

ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 days"

ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 week"

ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 week"

ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 week"

After that I did this:

sudo a2enmod deflate

At the bottom of: /etc/apache2/apache2.conf I added: Include httpd.conf

I created an empty httpd.conf file in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

and pasted in it:

LoadModule deflatemodule modules/moddeflate.so

sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/deflate.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/

sudo service apache2 restart

It is obvious that somewhere along the line I have made a huge mess of it all. I have a feeling that if I uninstalled this bit and reinstalled it in some other way it would work but I don't know what the problem is and don't know how to solve it.

Any help will be appreciated.

thanks in advance