Hello
My hosting uses Nginx for static request & Apache for dynamic request.
The redirection to webp images doesn't work. I like to use redirection instead of alter HTML.
Any solution ?
Also the support of hosting told me I should pass them a code to set in server for webp image conerters. Do you have any ?
Testing redirection to existing webp
uploads
Copying files for testing
Copying JPEG to uploads folder (webp-express-test-images/fs35cN.JPEG). ok
We now have a jpeg stored here:
/home/myusn/domains/mywebsite.com/public_html/wp-content/uploads/webp-express-test-images/fs35cN.JPEG
Copying dummy webp to the cache root for uploads. ok
We now have a webp file stored here:
/home/myusn/domains/mywebsite.com/public_html/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/uploads/webp-express-test-images/fs35cN.JPEG.webp
Lets check that browsers supporting webp gets the WEBP when the JPEG is requested
Making a HTTP request for the test image (pretending to be a client that supports webp, by setting the "Accept" header to "image/webp")
Request URL: https://www.mywebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/webp-express-test-images/fs35cN.JPEG
Response: 200 OK
Response headers:
server: ArvanCloud
date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 20:12:10 GMT
content-type: image/jpeg
content-length: 3195
last-modified: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 20:12:08 GMT
etag: "633c9398-c7b"
expires: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 20:12:10 GMT
cache-control: max-age=1209600
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
ar-sid: 2074
ar-atime: 0.676
ar-cache: BYPASS
ar-request-id: bef14ff8fec91ea04bac2b526e1c26df
accept-ranges: bytes
Bummer. As the "content-type" header reveals, we got the jpeg.
Additionally, the content-length reveals that we did not get the webp (we know that the file we put is exactly 6964 bytes). So we can conclude that the rewrite did not happen
The test FAILED.
Diagnosing rewrites
Running a special designed capability test to test if rewriting works with .htaccess files
Result: Yes, rewriting works.
It seems something is wrong with the .htaccess rules then. You could try to change "Destination structure" - the rules there are quite different.
It could also be that the server has cached the configuration a while. Some servers does that. In that case, simply give it a few minutes and try again.
Note that if you cannot get redirection to work, you can switch to "CDN friendly" mode and rely on the "Alter HTML" functionality to point to the webp images. If you do a bulk conversion and make sure that "Convert upon upload" is activated, you should be all set. Alter HTML even handles inline css (unless you select "picture tag" syntax). It does however not handle images in external css or which is added dynamically with javascript
themes
Copying files for testing
Copying JPEG to themes folder (webp-express-test-images/QZOvps.JPEG). ok
We now have a jpeg stored here:
/home/myuser/domains/mywebsite.com/public_html/wp-content/themes/webp-express-test-images/QZOvps.JPEG
Copying dummy webp to the cache root for themes. ok
We now have a webp file stored here:
/home/myuser/domains/mywebsite.com/public_html/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/themes/webp-express-test-images/QZOvps.JPEG.webp
Lets check that browsers supporting webp gets the WEBP when the JPEG is requested
Making a HTTP request for the test image (pretending to be a client that supports webp, by setting the "Accept" header to "image/webp")
Request URL: https://www.mywebsite.com/wp-content/themes/webp-express-test-images/QZOvps.JPEG
Response: 200 OK
Response headers:
server: ArvanCloud
date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 20:12:34 GMT
content-type: image/jpeg
content-length: 3195
last-modified: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 20:12:34 GMT
etag: "633c93b2-c7b"
expires: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 20:12:34 GMT
cache-control: max-age=1209600
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
ar-sid: 2025
ar-atime: 0.030
ar-cache: BYPASS
ar-request-id: d9a051ebbec6b32768117fed8ff5962b
accept-ranges: bytes
Bummer. As the "content-type" header reveals, we got the jpeg.
Additionally, the content-length reveals that we did not get the webp (we know that the file we put is exactly 6964 bytes). So we can conclude that the rewrite did not happen
The test FAILED.
Diagnosing rewrites
Running a special designed capability test to test if rewriting works with .htaccess files
Result: Yes, rewriting works.
It seems something is wrong with the .htaccess rules then. You could try to change "Destination structure" - the rules there are quite different.
It could also be that the server has cached the configuration a while. Some servers does that. In that case, simply give it a few minutes and try again.
Note that if you cannot get redirection to work, you can switch to "CDN friendly" mode and rely on the "Alter HTML" functionality to point to the webp images. If you do a bulk conversion and make sure that "Convert upon upload" is activated, you should be all set. Alter HTML even handles inline css (unless you select "picture tag" syntax). It does however not handle images in external css or which is added dynamically with javascript
Hello My hosting uses Nginx for static request & Apache for dynamic request. The redirection to webp images doesn't work. I like to use redirection instead of alter HTML. Any solution ?
Also the support of hosting told me I should pass them a code to set in server for webp image conerters. Do you have any ?