How to disable HTTP compression on Crowd 2.9 and above
Purpose
To switch off HTTP compression when Crowd is running behind a proxy server (eg. Apache HTTPD web server) that have Gzip compression enabled. As of Crowd 2.9 the option to switch off HTTP compression via the UI have been removed as per the improvement request link below :
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CWD-4656Getting issue details...
STATUS
Solution
- Go to
<crowd_installation_directory>/apache-tomcat/conf
- Edit the
server.xml
using a notepad editor - Search for the string/text for the word "compression" as per the screenshot shown below :
- Change it from "on" to "off" and save your changes.
- Restart Crowd for the changes to take effect
Last modified on Oct 18, 2016
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