Which web servers is WP Rocket compatible with?
This article contains information about the web servers WP Rocket is compatible with, as well as the list of Apache modules and directives required for the optimization features to work properly.
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Server compatibility
WP Rocket is compatible with these web servers:
- Apache
- NGINX
- Microsoft IIS
- LiteSpeed
- OpenLiteSpeed
Did you know? If LiteSpeed cache is activated on your server, WP Rocket will automatically purge that cache whenever WP Rocket's is purged. (The LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin is not required.)
Apache modules
On Apache servers WP Rocket will look for these modules and utilize them if available:
- mod_alias
- mod_deflate
- mod_expires
- mod_filter
- mod_headers
- mod_mime
- mod_rewrite
- mod_setenvif
Apache directives
If you are getting an error: Options not allowed here when WP Rocket is enabled, it can happen if the server disallows option override for any reason. In these cases, you need to ask your hosting provider if they can allow the following directives to be overridden by our htaccess rules:
- AddCharset
- AddDefaultCharset
- AddEncoding
- AddOutputFilterByType
- AddType
- ExpiresActive
- ExpiresByType
- ExpiresDefault
- FileETag
- FollowSymLinks
- Header
- Indexes
- RewriteBase
- RewriteCond
- RewriteEngine
- RewriteRule
- SetEnvIf
- SetEnvIfNoCase
- SetOutputFilter