This is the default example configuration of deflate.conf provided by Apache. This config file was generated by Apache running on Ubuntu 12.04.
It is located under: /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/deflate.conf
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# these are known to be safe with MSIE 6
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml
# everything else may cause problems with MSIE 6
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript application/javascript application/ecmascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
</IfModule>
Download the raw file with wget or curl
wget -O deflate.conf.example http://exampleconfig.com/static/raw/apache/ubuntu12.04/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/deflate.conf
curl http://exampleconfig.com/static/raw/apache/ubuntu12.04/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/deflate.conf > deflate.conf.example
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