Enable GZIP for CSS and JS files on NGINX server for Magento

Anant picture Anant · Sep 28, 2012 · Viewed 77k times · Source

I need to enable gzip compression on nginx server. As I have observed from firfox firebug NET tools, I have found that html file are gzip compressed. But Not the javascript files and CSS files.

I have already check Mime.types and nginx configuration file /etc/nginx/ngnix.conf and not found any issue. still not able to see the css and javascript Gzip Compression. My NGINX.conf entries are as below

gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";

gzip_vary on;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_comp_level 6;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

Answer

Vern Burton picture Vern Burton · Sep 28, 2012

This is an working config that I currently use in production.

http://pastie.org/10870547

gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";

gzip_comp_level 6;
gzip_min_length 1100;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_types
    text/plain
    text/css
    text/js
    text/xml
    text/javascript
    application/javascript
    application/json
    application/xml
    application/rss+xml
    image/svg+xml;

This config was tested via tools.pingdom.com.