Hi,
I have recently moved serving static files from Apache to Nginx ( 0.7.11
). As a part of build, I gzip JS and CSS files and have complied nginx
using --with-http_gzip_static_module .
When I access the page using,
http://static0..com/js/test.v1.js , nginx serves the page
fine. The response headers looks like
/Server nginx/0.7.11
Date Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:26:12 GMT
Content-Type application/x-javascript
Content-Length 1034
Last-Modified Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:12:49 GMT
Connection keep-alive
Content-Encoding gzip
Expires Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:26:12 GMT
Cache-Control max-age=31536000
/I am using Softlayer CDN ( which is backed by the above nginx ). Now,
the same request using the CDN does not work ( returns a 404 ).
Note: In case I have only test.js ( instead of only test.js.gz ) then
both nginx and CDN works fine. And in case I have only test.js.gz then
only nginx works
Thanks in advance!
-Rakesh
Hello!
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 07:03:55PM +0530, Rakesh Rajan wrote:
Content-Type application/x-javascript
Note: In case I have only test.js ( instead of only test.js.gz ) then
both nginx and CDN works fine. And in case I have only test.js.gz then
only nginx works
For gzip_static module you must have both compressed and
uncompressed versions of file. Compressed one is used when client
supports gzip, and uncompressed one if it doesn’t.
Since your CDN doesn’t work without uncompressed version - it
probably doesn’t support gzip (at least doesn’t advertize it to
nginx) and gzip_static module is useless here.
Maxim D.
Hi Maxim,
I am sure the CDN supports gzip. So in case if I configure nginx with
gzip ( and not gzip_static ) and there is only test.js , then the CDN
works fine ( the CDN response headers contains gzip ). This issue seems
quite specific to CDN and having only test.js.gz on my server ( with
nginx configure as gzip_static )
Thanks,
Rakesh
Hello!
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 09:09:09PM +0530, Rakesh Rajan wrote:
Hi Maxim,
I am sure the CDN supports gzip. So in case if I configure nginx with
gzip ( and not gzip_static ) and there is only test.js , then the CDN
works fine ( the CDN response headers contains gzip ). This issue seems
The curlpit isn’t response headers, but request headers from
CDN to nginx. Your CND may support gzip as a server, but don’t
support it being client (i.e. talking to backend servers as client).
Or it may set something in headers that prevents nginx from
serving gzipped content - e.g. by default nginx doesn’t serve
gzipped content if it detects proxy. See
http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpGzipModule for details.
quite specific to CDN and having only test.js.gz on my server ( with
nginx configure as gzip_static )
Again: having only test.js.gz on nginx is misconfiguration.
With gzip_static you must have both compressed and uncompressed
versions of file.
Maxim D.