Nginx: can't get gzip to work

[piquadrat]

Hi,

I have an Nginx server reverse-proxying an apache instance. Nginx is configured to serve static stuff like javascript, css and images. It would be cool if Nginx would gzip the static text files, but it doesn't. My nginx.conf looks like this:


user www-data;
worker_processes 1;

error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;

access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;

sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;

#keepalive_timeout 0;
keepalive_timeout 65;
tcp_nodelay on;

gzip on;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_comp_level 6;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_types text/plain text/html text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_disable “MSIE [1-6].(?!.*SV1)”;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

And the site-specific stuff:

server {
listen 80;
server_name .soemibar.ch;
client_max_body_size 20000;

location ^~ /media/ {
root /home/www/soemibar;
}

location /gallery/plog-content/ {
root /home/www/soemibar/public_html;
}

location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}

error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /var/www/nginx-default;
}
}

E.g. http://soemibar.ch/gallery/plog-content/themes/default/gallery.css should be gzipped, but it isn't. I tried it with the Nginx versions from hardy and intrepid, both deliver the content without gzipping it. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Benjamin

[harishcm]

Nginx was not compiled with the --with-http_gzip_static_module option. Compile it yourself or use a PPA. See the webpage below for details.

http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxInstall