Too much traffic Help!!

[Orstio]

Try this:

Turn off compressed output in both Joomla and SMF.

Add this to the top of your .htaccess:

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AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
php_value output_handler ob_gzhandler

(Thanks to GooseMoose for that!) 

[Mongoose]

Yes, It works!
But is it safe solution?

[chadness]

Definitely safe.  It's basically just telling your site's server to put its php output through gzip, instead of having Joomla do it internally.

[Mongoose]

Hmmm... Have iteresting issue.
Setting RG_EMULATION to 0 in globals.php still disables the compression.

[Directy]

... any news?

[Orstio]

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=112633.msg761641#msg761641

[Mongoose]

But...

Hmmm... Have iteresting issue.
Setting RG_EMULATION to 0 in globals.php still disables the compression.

[Orstio]

Then chances are something is producing an error when register_globals is off. 

Check your error logs.

[Mongoose]

No errors. Neither Joomla nor SMF.

[Thornbrand]

I was experiencing the same problem, and thought I'd offer what seems to be another working solution - incase anyone else gets hung up on this.  For some reason I could not get the solution presented by Orstio (from GooseMoose) to work:

Try this:

Turn off compressed output in both Joomla and SMF.

Add this to the top of your .htaccess:

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AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
php_value output_handler ob_gzhandler

(Thanks to GooseMoose for that!) 

Instead, this seemed to work well for me:

I have compressed output in both Joomla and SMF turned off.

RG_EMULATION set to 0 in globals.php

And have added this to my .htaccess file.

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php_flag register_globals off
php_flag zlib.output_compression on
php_value zlib.output_compression_level 5


Seems to be working just fine.

[Mongoose]

Yes! It works! Thank you!

[directtech]

Register_globals is only a security risk if allow_url_fopen is on.

How can I check this for my site?

[Orstio]

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=18250.0

[directtech]

Ok, my allow_url_fopen is set to ON.  How do I change that?  Thanks for all the help.

[Orstio]

That usually cannot be changed locally.  You'll have to talk to your host.  Until it is off, you are best to make sure that register_globals is off.