title: How can I pre-compress files with mod_deflate in Apache 2.x?
body: <p>I am serving all content through apache with <code>Content-Encoding: zip</code> but that compresses on the fly.  A good amount of my content is static files on the disk.  I want to gzip the files beforehand rather than compressing them every time they are requested.</p>
  
  <p>This is something that, I believe, <code>mod_gzip</code> did in Apache 1.x automatically, but just having the file with .gz next to it.  That's no longer the case with <code>mod_deflate</code>.</p>