gzip compression not working

[Christian Billen]

This is my revised setting, I had to set proxy_set_header for it to
compress, not sure what it does or why.

As for the gzip types, shouldn't text/javascript be compressed? should we
add it to the mime types?

Thank you

    gzip  on;
    gzip_buffers     4 8k;
    gzip_proxied     any;
    gzip_types       text/plain text/html text/css application/x-javascript
text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
    gzip_comp_level  4;
    gzip_http_version   1.0;
    proxy_set_header    Accept-Encoding  "";


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Christian Billen <cbillen at warmlyyours.com>
wrote:

> Hi guys, ok just removing the file size did work...and the http test as
> well.  Now should I be concerned with gzip_http at all? what is going to
> give me compression for most clients out there?
> Thanks for the tip on the types as well.
>
> Christian
>
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Calomel <nginxlist at calomel.org> wrote:
>
>> Christian,
>>
>> Is the test file you are testing larger than 1100 bytes and one of the
>> formates you listed in gzip_types?
>>
>> If you have curl (linux, BSD, ect.) installed you can do your own
>> header tests with:  curl -I --compressed http://localhost
>>
>>  Nginx "how to"
>>  https://calomel.org/nginx.html
>>
>> --
>>  Calomel @ https://calomel.org
>>  Open Source Research and Reference
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:24:39AM -0500, Christian Billen wrote:
>> >   Hello,
>> >   I have a fresh new installation of nginx on ubuntu 8.04 (installed via
>> >   apt-get, I believe it is 0.5.x something)
>> >   In my nginx.conf file I have gzip turned on, now I wanted to do a
>> basic
>> >   test and serving a static html file, but the file does not come
>> compressed
>> >   at all.
>> >   Here's the snippet of configuration, I tried variations on this
>> without
>> >   success
>> >    gzip  on;
>> >       gzip_min_length  1100;
>> >       gzip_buffers     4 8k;
>> >       gzip_proxied     any;
>> >       gzip_types       text/plain text/html text/css
>> >   application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss
>> >   text/javascript;
>> >       gzip_http_version 1.1;
>> >       gzip_comp_level 6;
>> >   Does anyone have any idea why nothing is compressed?
>> >   I've used this [1]http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php and
>> others
>> >   to test the results.
>> >   Thank you so much!
>> >
>> >References
>> >
>> >   Visible links
>> >   1. http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>
>
> Christian Billen
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Christian Billen
Director of IT
Warmlyyours.com, inc.

Phone: (800) 875-5285 ext.800
Fax: (847) 550-2600
Email: cbillen at warmlyyours.com

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