diff --git a/installer/apache/airtime-vhost-2.4 b/installer/apache/airtime-vhost-2.4
index a1060d875..954a12910 100644
--- a/installer/apache/airtime-vhost-2.4
+++ b/installer/apache/airtime-vhost-2.4
@@ -2,8 +2,32 @@
    ServerAdmin foo@bar.org
    DocumentRoot WEB_ROOT
    php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /tmp
+   php_value post_max_size 500M
+   php_value upload_max_filesize 500M
+   php_value request_order "GPC"
+   php_value session.gc_probability 0
+   php_value session.auto_start 0
+
+   AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
+   AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
+   AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
+   AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
+   AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
+   AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
+   AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
+   AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
+   AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
+   AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/json
+
 
   <Directory WEB_ROOT>
+      RewriteEngine On
+      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
+      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
+      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
+      RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
+      RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]
+
       DirectoryIndex index.php
       AllowOverride all
       Order allow,deny