Coppermine, being a photo gallery or infact a media gallery, as it can serve much more than just images, faces a daunting task of transfering a lot of data to browser with every single request. This is not just bandwidth eater but sometimes also frustrating to users when they have to keep waiting for the complete page to be loaded.
To speedup the page loading without putting much pressure on the server, we can use some proven techniques. This post will discuss the htaccess way to better the page loading by caching and compressing the page contents wherever possible. Continue reading ‘Speeding up Coppermine with htaccess’