gzipping my google sitemaps

hello,

how do I actually gzip my google sitemaps? I use my own script to generate the sitemaps files......

thanks

 

In Linux, type in: gzip -9 [filename]

 

hmmmm....I'm on shared hosting for now.....is there any way I can do that including some function in the script that makes the sitemap?

thanks

 

Since you use your own script, I assume you wish to continue to do so (and not e.g. switch to my sitemap generator program *G*)

So, what script language do you use? Have you tried searching Google for e.g. PHP + GZip?

 

ok...I found this:

http://it2.php.net/manual/en/function.gzencode.php

<?php
$data = implode("", file("bigfile.txt"));
$gzdata = gzencode($data, 9);
$fp = fopen("bigfile.txt.gz", "w");
fwrite($fp, $gzdata);
fclose($fp);
?> 

Code (markup):

do I have to do anything after saving the gzencoded data to a .xml.gz file??

thanks

 

it's allways better to use sitamap creator problem.

they are allways doing everythink for you