Hello,
I have a fresh new installation of nginx on ubuntu 8.04 (installed via
apt-get, I believe it is 0.5.x something)
In my nginx.conf file I have gzip turned on, now I wanted to do a basic
test
and serving a static html file, but the file does not come compressed at
all.
Here’s the snippet of configuration, I tried variations on this without
success
gzip on;
gzip_min_length 1100;
gzip_buffers 4 8k;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_types text/plain text/html text/css
application/x-javascript
text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_comp_level 6;
Does anyone have any idea why nothing is compressed?
I’ve used this GIDZipTest: Web Page Compression (Deflate / Gzip) Test - GIDNetwork and others
to
test the results.
Thank you so much!
Christian,
Is the test file you are testing larger than 1100 bytes and one of the
formates you listed in gzip_types?
If you have curl (linux, BSD, ect.) installed you can do your own
header tests with: curl -I --compressed http://localhost
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:24:39AM -0500, Christian B. wrote:
I’ve used this GIDZipTest: Web Page Compression (Deflate / Gzip) Test - GIDNetwork and others to
test the results.
www.gidnetwork.com send HTTP/1.0 request, which is not gzipped because
of “gzip_http_version 1.1”.
Also, you do not need to set gzip_types, those never be issued by nginx:
application/xml, application/xml+rss, text/javascript.
It’s CPU cycles waste.
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:00:53PM -0400, Calomel wrote:
Igor,
Why do you not need to specify “gzip_types”? Is it because he is using
“gzip_proxied any;” ?
No. The gzip modules tests Content-Type sequentially, so the shorter
list is the better. The “application/xml, application/xml+rss,
text/javascript”
are not defined in nginx’s mime.types. However, they may be set by a
backend.
Igor,
Why do you not need to specify “gzip_types”? Is it because he is using
“gzip_proxied any;” ?
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Hi guys, ok just removing the file size did work…and the http test as
well. Now should I be concerned with gzip_http at all? what is going to
give me compression for most clients out there?
Thanks for the tip on the types as well.
Christian
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Calomel [email protected] wrote:
test and serving a static html file, but the file does not come
text/javascript;
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This is my revised setting, I had to set proxy_set_header for it to
compress, not sure what it does or why.
As for the gzip types, shouldn’t text/javascript be compressed? should
we
add it to the mime types?
Thank you
gzip on;
gzip_buffers 4 8k;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_types text/plain text/html text/css
application/x-javascript
text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
gzip_comp_level 4;
gzip_http_version 1.0;
proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding “”;
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Christian B.
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Christian,
test and serving a static html file, but the file does not come
application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss
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On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 01:03:40PM -0500, Christian B. wrote:
This is my revised setting, I had to set proxy_set_header for it to
compress, not sure what it does or why.
proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding “”;
disables this header when request is proxied to backend.
However, any proxy_set_header in a locaiton resets proxy_set_header
inherited from previous level, therefore you should add it in these
locaitons instead of global level.
As for the gzip types, shouldn’t text/javascript be compressed? should we
add it to the mime types?
There are no text/javascript MIME-type. At least in Apache configuration
files.