static web server config improvements

[Igor Clark]

Off the top of my head, I don't know if gzipping binary image data is  
going to get you much except overhead - it's probably a narrow  
calculation though

On 28 Jan 2008, at 17:02, rkmr.em at gmail.com wrote:

> this is my config for a web server that does only static files  
> mostly gifs, pngs and jpgs.. is there any improvement i can do in  
> this like is there some sort of caching that can be enabled? or any  
> other improvements that can be done to this..
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> #user  mark;
> worker_processes  1;
> error_log  logs/error_staticfarm.log;
>
> pid        logs/nginx_staticfarm.pid;
> events {
>     worker_connections  1024;
> }
>
> http {
>     include       mime.types;
>     default_type  application/octet-stream;
>
>     #access_log  logs/access_staticfarm.log;
>
>     sendfile        on;
>     #tcp_nopush     on;
>
>     keepalive_timeout  0;
>     #keepalive_timeout  10;
>
>     gzip  on;
>     server {
>         listen       6080;
>         server_name  localhost;
>         #access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;
>         location /nginx_status {
>             stub_status on;
>             access_log   off;
>         }
>         location /static{
>             root   /home/mark/staticfarm/;
>             access_log   off;
>         }
>     }
> }
>

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