[Module] ngx_http_gzip issue : unknown directive "gzip"

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 04:51:31PM +0300, Valentin V. Bartenev wrote:

> On Monday 30 October 2017 10:33:55 nik mur wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Recently I upgraded my nginx to 1.12 version from 1.10 branch.
> > 
> > The build from source went through without any issues, but while starting
> > Nginx I am receiving this error:
> > 
> > *>>[emerg] 342#342: unknown directive "gzip" in
> > /usr/local/apps/nginx/etc/conf.d/gzip.conf:2*
> > 
> [..]
> 
> You should check your full configuration.  It's unclear where this "gzip"
> directive is included.
> 
> Please note, there's no such directive in mail and stream modules.

The message suggests that the directive is indeed unknown, not 
just used in a wrong context.  When a directive is used in a wrong 
context, the message would be "is not allowed here" instead.

In this particular case I would recommend to compile without any 
3rd party modules, likely one of the 3rd party modules screwed up 
building due to incorrect hacks used in config script.

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Maxim Dounin
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