Gzip just fails

Server NGINX
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Hey, I’ve tried kind of everything but it seems like nginx just won’t
gzip.

I have this in http zone, no page is gziped, only php ones but that’s
php’s internal compression.
I also receive Transfer-Encoding chunked from server.

Any ideas? this is nginx-0.8.28

 include       /etc/mime.types;
 default_type  application/octet-stream;
 access_log off;
 sendfile     on;
 gzip              on;
 gzip_proxied      any;
 gzip_comp_level   5;
 gzip_types        text/plain text/css application/x-javascript

text/xml application/xml;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_disable “MSIE [1-6].”;
server_names_hash_bucket_size 128;
autoindex on;
error_page 404 /btnerror/404.html;
log_not_found off;
server_tokens off;
client_max_body_size 32m;

2

Paul Roland wrote:

Hey, I’ve tried kind of everything
but it seems like nginx just won’t gzip.

Any ideas?

check error.log or debug error.log if not clear up

 default_type      application/octet-stream;

 gzip_types        text/plain text/css application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml;

 gzip_disable     "MSIE [1-6]\.";

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Best regards,
Gena

3

Start with a basic gzip config:

gzip on;
gzip_min_length 1100;
gzip_buffers 4 8k;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/x-javascript text/xml
application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

Check that nginx is now gzipping. Then add things like gzip_http_version
and gzip_disable (doing an nginx reload each time) and see which one
causes nginx to stop gzipping.

Mark.

4

I have both error_log /opt/btnws2/logs/debug.log debug; and access_log
/opt/btnws2/logs/debug2.log; enabled, no error is shown and no debug is
made.

5

switching back to stable makes gzip work with the exact same
configuration so that is clearly an nginx issue.

6

switching back to stable makes gzip work with the exact same configuration
so that is clearly an nginx issue.

… or a build issue.

  • Jeff

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Paul Roland wrote:

I have both error_log /opt/btnws2/logs/debug.log debug;
and access_log /opt/btnws2/logs/debug2.log; enabled,
no error is shown and no debug is made.

./configure --with-debug needed:
$ ./configure --help | grep debug
–with-debug enable the debugging logging

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Best regards,
Gena

8

nope, both were build the same.

./configure --prefix=/opt/btnws2 --with-http_stub_status_module
–with-http_gzip_static_module --conf-path=/opt/btnws2/server.conf

this is my configure line

Configuration summary

  • using system PCRE library
  • OpenSSL library is not used
  • md5: using system crypto library
  • sha1 library is not used
  • using system zlib library