Make sure the deflate module is enabled: sudo a2enmod deflate then add the following to your vhoste file: AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/

There might be a day that your python is totally messed up and you won't be able to do any apt-get install. The situation is even worse if you haven't updated the server

Set up proxy Install build essentials then: aptitude install -y libapache2-mod-proxy-html libxml2-dev Enable apache modules: a2enmod Then it will ask you for the names of the modules that you want to enable: proxy