<p>I am serving all content through apache with <code>Content-Encoding: zip</code> but that compresses on the fly.  A good amount of my content is static files on the disk.  I want to gzip the files beforehand rather than compressing them every time they are requested.</p>

<p>This is something that, I believe, <code>mod_gzip</code> did in Apache 1.x automatically, but just having the file with .gz next to it.  That's no longer the case with <code>mod_deflate</code>.</p>

This functionality was misplaced in mod_gzip anyway. In Apache 2.x,
you do that with content negotiation
. Specifically, you need to enable
```
MultiViews
```
with the
```
Options
```
directive
and you need to specify your encoding types with the
```
AddEncoding
```
directive
.