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mod_gzip

I hate message boards. Absolutely hate them. It's not often that I turn to them, but on occasion I may post a question that I need answered. Without exception, ever time I get a response that does not contain an answer but rather questions why I need the answer.

It's some smart ass response that doesn't help at all. I will be forever confused by this. If you don't have the answer, and nothing to add, why post a response?

As an example, I'm looking to install mod_gzip on one of our production servers. It runs Mac OS X 10.3. I've never installed it before, and went looking for some guidence before I went to work on a live server. What I found where instructions from 2003 for 10.2. Then there were some changes that had to be made to the Make file in order for it to work. But that was a while ago. I wanted to confirm that those changes still need to be made. So, I posted to Apple's discussion board for OS X Server:

mod_gzip

Does anyone have experience installing this module on 10.3? The one set of instructions I found where for 10.2. I was hoping to find something a little more up to date.

The first response:

What makes you think the process has changed between 10.2 and 10.3. Very little has changed in terms of the apache distribution included with Mac OS X Server

Oh so helpful. No specific knowledge that it has not, in fact, changed. Just a little bit of attitude for no apparent reason. Maybe I'm over reacting, but what a fucking dick. Is that weird that before you start screwing around with a live system, you might want to make sure that something hasn't changed, and that you are going by the most recent instructions?

My response

Not sure it has, just looking for confirmation that it in fact hasn't. The instructions that I found were from 2003 and the version of mod_gzip was older than what is out there now. Then you had to make mods to the Make file. Now? I don't know, that's why I'm asking.