[nginx_gzip_static] Necessity to create empty file with always option.

[Richard Fussenegger]

Thanks for the answer and solution!

Sorry for using the wrong mailing list, will not happen again.

Richard

On 11/17/2015 7:29 PM, Valentin V. Bartenev wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 November 2015 19:15:43 Richard Fussenegger wrote:
>> Hi guys!
>>
>> I have the following weird situation: Several files with .gz extension
>> are on disk and I have a location were requests are processed that do
>> not include it, so I set the option gzip_static to always and also
>> installed the gunzip module. The problem is, I still need to create
>> EMPTY files without the .gz extension on disk for everything to work as
>> expected. Expected is that gunzip extracts the archives if no GZIP
>> support is announced by the client and nginx directly streams the
>> response if the client did.
>>
>> The configuration is fairly easy:
>>
>>     location /var/files {
>>         internal;
>>
>>         gunzip on;
>>         gzip_proxied any;
>>         gzip_static always;
>>
>>         aio on;
>>         sendfile off;
>>         tcp_nodelay on;
>>         tcp_nopush off;
>>
>>         try_files $uri =404;
>>     }
> [..]
>
> Why do you have this useless "try_files $uri =404;" directive here?
> It causes your problem.
>
> Please note, that this mailing list is for developers.  You should ask
> questions in user's one: http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
>
>   wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev
>
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