Why is this file not being gzipped?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:54:10PM -0700, mike wrote:

> On 8/23/08, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> 
> > css matched by the first location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html)$
> 
> I fixed it - this is what it looks like now. I keep getting the
> location ordering confused. That's probably the most confusing part of
> switching to nginx for me is when something matches multiple
> locations/etc... anyway, so far so good!

The logic is following:

1) maximum match for static locations regardless of order,
   it's very handy: you do not need to think about order;

2) first match for regex locations, order is important,
   it's not too handy, but there is no choice: there is no way
   to define maximal match for regex.

>         server {
>                 listen 80;
>                 server_name media.xmike.com;
>                 index index.html;
>                 root /home/mike/web/media.xmike.com/;
>                 gzip off;
>                 location ~* \.css$ {
>                         gzip on;
>                 }
>                 include /etc/nginx/defaults.conf;
>                 include /etc/nginx/expires.conf;
>                 location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif)$ {
>                         valid_referers none blocked foo.com;
>                         if ($invalid_referer) {
>                                 return 403;
>                         }
>                 }
>         }
> 
> > BTW, do you really use such indentions ?
> > If yes, then I understand Python author.
> 
> No :) I have it indented nicely, but some of those were include files,
> and I decided to paste the contents of them in so you could see the
> entire scope of the server block

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Igor Sysoev
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