Enable gzip in the nginx config by default

[wingrunr21]

Would like to request enabling basic gzip settings/expire headers in the nginx config by default:

gzip on;
gzip_static on;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_comp_level 6;
gzip_disable “MSIE [1-6].(?!.*SV1)”;
gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private auth;
gzip_types text/plain text/html text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|pdf|txt|tar|wav|bmp|rtf|js|flv|swf)$ {
  expires 1w;
  access_log off;
}

[ghost]

Apologies for the late response - I will incorporate gzip. I'm not too sure about expires, we could probably do it for all content due to it's static nature, what do you think?

[ghost]

Hm, actually I do believe gzip is on for dokku by default (defined by /etc/nginx/nginx.conf) - does it need to be done twice / should it be done at a buildpack level?

[wingrunr21]

The gzip_proxied directive should apply to the docker requests but I know when I deployed a static site to my dokku install a few months ago I was not getting gzipped requests back (I also don't believe gzip_static is enabled by default). I ended up having to specify an nginx.conf in the project repo to get gzip support.

[jgallen23]

The same is happening for me. My content is not gzipped.