Thanks That helped alot....
Just to post this i also found the mod_gzip for the apache 2 server at
http://www.gknw.com/development/apac.../unix/modules/
I used the 2.1.0 version and tested it it all seems to work fine now i had some changes to make to the configuation of the httpd.conf they had omitted some of the setting that was needed on the previous version. FYI i am posting my configuration for all to see in the futre
<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_can_negotiate Yes
mod_gzip_command_version '/mod_gzip_status'
mod_gzip_temp_dir /tmp
mod_gzip_keep_workfiles No
mod_gzip_minimum_file_size 500
mod_gzip_maximum_file_size 500000
mod_gzip_maximum_inmem_size 60000
mod_gzip_min_http 1000
# Before version 1.3.19.2a this value was not configurable.)
mod_gzip_item_exclude reqheader "User-agent: Mozilla/4.0[678]"
mod_gzip_item_include file \.html$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.shtml$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.htm$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.shtm$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.php$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.phtml$
mod_gzip_item_exclude file \.js$
mod_gzip_item_exclude file \.css$
mod_gzip_item_include file \.pl$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/html$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/plain$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^httpd/unix-directory$
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_add_header_count Yes
mod_gzip_command_version mod_gzip_version
CustomLog logs/gzip.log mod_gzip_info2
</IfModule>
I really appreciate all the help Im sure i will be coming back often to this site