i am playing with a simple system that allows the http://schools-wikipedia.org digital encyclopeda to be searched. its not going to be on any live web server but will be using xampp with the web root being /opt/lampp/htdocs (with slackware 14.2) on an offline i.e Intranet basis. Its to give 3rd world like Ghana an educational resource that doesn't depend on missing libs ( kiwix) .
Anyway its working and since it just uses sqlite3 (serverless) as the db linking key words to relevant .htm pages in the encyclopedia as a href links on the index.php landing page , it can be zipped up and distributed maybe using usb pen-drives. Some people might like to download it (soschildren) have given up on the download & its 5gig so im trying to find ways of reducing it down from 5gig
Now i have read that with live web servers you can have gzip compression enabled so that uncompressed text files like html & htm are compressed on the fly & sent to the client.is there anyway of having just compressed html files with no uncompressed ones in the web root that can be used to serve up web pages to client pc's on the Intranet network?