On Tuesday 22 December 2015 19:05:18 Valentin V. Bartenev wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 December 2015 11:01:19 snieuwen wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> [..]
>
> gzip_static always;
>
> See the documentation: nginx.org/r/gzip_static
>
[..]

But your problem is caused by "try_files", since you have configured
it to check "$uri" and "$uri/" instead of "$uri.gz".

The configuration below should work for you:

location / {
root /var/www;

gzip_static always;
gunzip on;

error_page 404 = @application;
}


wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev

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