proxy + compress ?

hello everyone,

I have  lighttpd 1.4.18-1, running on Linux RHEL4 (with updates from centos4). I set it up to run as a proxy for
a Zope app which runs on port 8080. It works ok via port 80 and 443 - thanks for making it so easy!

Now, the zope app doesn't compress it's content. I would like lighty to do it for me. So I enabled the compress
module, configured it..and nothing changes. I changed the order the module are defined in the config
file, hoping that would affect the order in which they are loaded/ executed, no luck.

My relevant bits of configs are :

-----------------------------------
server.modules              = (
                                "mod_redirect",
                                "mod_access",
                                "mod_compress",
                                "mod_proxy",
                                "mod_accesslog" )

## change uid to <uid> (default: don't care)
server.username            = "lighttpd"

## change uid to <uid> (default: don't care)
server.groupname           = "lighttpd"

#### compress module
compress.cache-dir         = "/var/cache/lighttpd/compress/"
compress.filetype          = ("text/plain", "text/html")

proxy.debug=0
proxy.server = ( "" => 
                        ( ( 
                        "host" => "127.0.0.1",
                         "port" => 8080
                        ) )
                )
----------------------------

[root <at> nms lighttpd]# ls -l /var/cache/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4096 Dec 10 12:56 lighttpd

[root <at> nms lighttpd]# ls -l /var/cache/lighttpd/
drwxr-xr-x  2 lighttpd lighttpd 4096 Dec 10 12:56 compress

the compress directory is also empty.

What am I missing? 

thanks in advance!
Beto
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