How to make my Tomcat v6.0 localhost Server Enable compression "gzip"?

Question

I have finished development of a Java EE web application
Under Eclipse IDE and Tomcat v6.0 as a localhost Server
Now I need to make my localhost Server (Tomcat v6.0) Enable compression "gzip"
For static resources as (JavaScript files, CSS files , Images , ...)

Answer 1

Open /conf/server.xml, add this configuration in your HTTP connector:

compression="on"
compressionMinSize="2048"
compressableMimeType="application/javascript, text/css"

For example:

 <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
               connectionTimeout="20000" 
               redirectPort="8443"
               compression="on"
               compressionMinSize="2048"
               compressableMimeType="application/javascript, text/css"/>

More Apache Tomcat HTTP

Answer 2

If you want to gzip js and css files than Iswanto San's answer is correct.

If you want to gzip html pages then the following configuration should help.

compression="on" 
compressionMinSize="2048" 
compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml"

If you want to gzip all response

compressableMimeType="text/html, text/xml,text/plain,text/javascript,text/css"