Advise on Nginx Config

[OlgaSecom]

==How to enable gzip compression in nginx for static files and speed up your site ==
tonginx configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf add in "http"directive these lines:

gzipon;
gzip_disable"msie6";
gzip_varyon;
gzip_proxiedany;
gzip_comp_level6;
gzip_buffers16 8k;
gzip_typestext/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascripttext/xml application/xml application/xml+rss application/javascript text/javascript;

Savefile and restart the nginx:

/etc/init.d/nginxrestart

Afterthat all the css and javasripts files will be compressed on the server side and your sites will work faster

Sincerely, Olga Secom

 

[wwwj]

If only made changes on that config, no need restart, use reload instead.
Nginx config reload without downtime - Server Fault

 

[OlgaSecom]

If only made changes on that config, no need restart, use reload instead.
Nginx config reload without downtime - Server Fault

Thanks, for the addition.

 

[Mar$hall]

Also i always cache images too. add this to server {}

location ~* .(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js)$ {
expires 365d;
}

and the: service nginx reload

 

[wedge1001]

actually that's not real caching.
you just advise the clients to set a timeout for the reload of the files from your server.
so it's more a client-side caching.
if you do this, don't forgett to add a time-tag (or s.th. else) to your code, in order to push changes to your clients, without having them to clear their caches.

i prefere to not use expires 365d but instead just use

expires max;

for real caching look at s.th. like reverse-proxy, php-apc, memcached etc

 

[OlgaSecom]

New advice you can watch here http://www.wjunction.com/53-technic...ng-nameservers-centos-6-no-control-panel.html