Hi,

Is it possible to serve precompressed files without serving their uncompressed counterparts?

For example:
/var/www/ contains index.html.gz, but no index.html. How do I configure nginx to respond with index.html.gz when the client supports gzip or let nginx decompress the file on the fly when the client does not support gzip?

Based on this answer on stackoverflow http://serverfault.com/a/611757, I am currently using the following configuration:

location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ @application;
root /var/www;
gzip_static on;
gunzip on;
}

@application configures the application server.
When I try get the index.html page, nginx return a 403 forbidden error.