Gzip directives

Server NGINX
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Greetings all,
I’m new to the list, so I don’t want to bog everything down with a lot
of repeat questions. I’ve been having a hard time finding documentation
on the various gzip directives used in the configuration files, and
posts on various web sites have netted nothing. Could someone please
direct me to some information on this?

Thanks, and sorry for the entry-level question.

Philip Ratzsch
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Hi Phillip,

The authoritative reference is here

http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpGzipModule

Here is my gzip conf for comparison

[dave@crimson ~]$ cat /opt/local/etc/nginx/gzip.conf
gzip on;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_min_length 1100;
gzip_comp_level 5;
gzip_buffers 4 8k;
gzip_types text/plain text/html text/xml text/css application/x-
javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/
javascript application/atom+xml;
#gzip_vary on;
#gzip_disable “MSIE [1-6].”;

Cheers

Dave

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Thanks Dave, that was just what I needed.

Philip Ratzsch
Information Systems, Rackspace
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