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Tal Yaniv
Tal Yaniv

Reputation: 493

gzip not working in nginx + passenger

I have an nginx + passenger installed on Amazon Linux EC2 server, running a Rails application. The application yields JSON responses.

The JSON response is rendered with length header:

# test_controller.rb
# result contains a large 400k JSON string
headers["Content-Length"] = result.size.to_s
render :json => result

I tried enabling gzip, but the response is still not compressed. I checked it with GIDZipTest.

# nginx.conf
gzip on;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_comp_level 1;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_min_length 500;
gzip_types application/x-javascript  application/json;

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2829

Answers (3)

Lackneets
Lackneets

Reputation: 21

gzip_types works! In my case, application/javascript also required for Ruby on Rails

gzip_types text/plain text/css application/javascript application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

Upvotes: 1

Tal Yaniv
Tal Yaniv

Reputation: 493

Mystery solved. The php script is not reliable.

This is reliable:

wget --header="accept-encoding: gzip" URL

Gets the compressed version.

Testing with Chrome and Charles sniffer convinced me that everything worked fine.

Upvotes: 0

Ido Shilon
Ido Shilon

Reputation: 405

I have it working properly, try adding (text/javascript)

gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

Upvotes: 7

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