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?<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the tip on the types as well.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Christian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Calomel <<a href="mailto:nginxlist@calomel.org">nginxlist@calomel.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Christian,<br>
<br>
Is the test file you are testing larger than 1100 bytes and one of the<br>
formates you listed in gzip_types?<br>
<br>
If you have curl (linux, BSD, ect.) installed you can do your own<br>
header tests with: curl -I --compressed <a href="http://localhost" target="_blank">http://localhost</a><br>
<br>
Nginx "how to"<br>
<a href="https://calomel.org/nginx.html" target="_blank">https://calomel.org/nginx.html</a><br>
<br>
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Calomel @ <a href="https://calomel.org" target="_blank">https://calomel.org</a><br>
Open Source Research and Reference<br>
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:24:39AM -0500, Christian Billen wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
> I have a fresh new installation of nginx on ubuntu 8.04 (installed via<br>
> apt-get, I believe it is 0.5.x something)<br>
> In my nginx.conf file I have gzip turned on, now I wanted to do a basic<br>
> test and serving a static html file, but the file does not come compressed<br>
> at all.<br>
> Here's the snippet of configuration, I tried variations on this without<br>
> success<br>
> gzip on;<br>
> gzip_min_length 1100;<br>
> gzip_buffers 4 8k;<br>
> gzip_proxied any;<br>
> gzip_types text/plain text/html text/css<br>
> application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss<br>
> text/javascript;<br>
> gzip_http_version 1.1;<br>
> gzip_comp_level 6;<br>
> Does anyone have any idea why nothing is compressed?<br>
</div>> I've used this [1]<a href="http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php" target="_blank">http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php</a> and others<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> to test the results.<br>
> Thank you so much!<br>
><br>
</div>>References<br>
><br>
> Visible links<br>
> 1. <a href="http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php" target="_blank">http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php</a><br>
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