Title: Enabling plugin doesn’t work
Last modified: August 23, 2017

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# Enabling plugin doesn’t work

 *  Resolved [sagar10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sagar10/)
 * (@sagar10)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-plugin-doesnt-work/)
 * For some reason when I press the enable button, the GZIP isn’t actually enabling
   even though the success message shows. If I go back into the settings, it’s back
   to the “GZIP is not enabled” message. Running tests on GZIP testing sites shows
   it really isn’t being enabled. What gives?
 * Site is live on a real domain.

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 *  Plugin Contributor [ericmulder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericmulder/)
 * (@ericmulder)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-plugin-doesnt-work/#post-9433602)
 * Hi Sagar,
 * Do you use the htaccess option? Or the normal option? And could you post the 
   debug info (small link on the settings page)?
 * Eric
 *  Thread Starter [sagar10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sagar10/)
 * (@sagar10)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-plugin-doesnt-work/#post-9433787)
 * Thank you for your quick reply.
 * I using plugin and htaccess option both.
    What is debug info???
 * My website url : [https://www.couponhai.com/](https://www.couponhai.com/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [ericmulder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericmulder/)
 * (@ericmulder)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-plugin-doesnt-work/#post-9433841)
 * could you try to activate the compression without using the htaccess option?
 * Debug info is the small link on the bottom of the page
 *  Thread Starter [sagar10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sagar10/)
 * (@sagar10)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-plugin-doesnt-work/#post-9433925)
 * No.
 * debug info:
    isApache: 1 (Apache) enabled: 1 enabled-htaccess: 1 plugin: 1.1.11
 *  Plugin Contributor [ericmulder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericmulder/)
 * (@ericmulder)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-plugin-doesnt-work/#post-9433984)
 * I suspect the htaccess variant doesn’t work on your hosting (or the htaccess 
   settings don’t comply). You could try to edit the htaccess yourself, or activate
   gzip compression without checking htaccess…
 *  [fendt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fendt/)
 * (@fendt)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-plugin-doesnt-work/#post-9478546)
 * I have the same proble and the same debug info.
    Can you tell me how do I activate
   gzip compression without checking htaccess? When I open the GZIP Compression 
   I only have the option to enable.
 * Thanks for your help!
 *  Plugin Contributor [ericmulder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericmulder/)
 * (@ericmulder)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-plugin-doesnt-work/#post-9520055)
 * When you don’t check the htaccess method, the plugin tries to enable gzip via
   php. It might be that the htaccess rules don’t do the trick on your server.

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 * Last reply from: [ericmulder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericmulder/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-plugin-doesnt-work/#post-9520055)
 * Status: resolved