Title: error log invalid command "compress"
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# error log invalid command "compress"

 *  [csinclai1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csinclai1/)
 * (@csinclai1)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-log-invalid-command-compress/)
 * [Wed Oct 15 07:52:24 2014] [alert] [client 66.249.83.69] /home/lifelion/public_html/.
   htaccess: Invalid command ‘compress’, perhaps misspelled or defined by a module
   not included in the server configuration
 * I am getting this error log when trying to visit my site, any suggestions?

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-log-invalid-command-compress/#post-5391256)
 * > .htaccess: Invalid command ‘compress’
 * That’s the key to what’s wrong. If you weren’t editing that file, ask your webhost
   to fix it.

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 * [compress](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/compress/)

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-log-invalid-command-compress/#post-5391256)
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