Hi Maxim,

Thanks for the Tip.

It seems that PageSpeed Module was the culprit, after compiling
without PageSpeed, GZIP worked perfectly.

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 6:03 PM Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 04:51:31PM +0300, Valentin V. Bartenev wrote:
>
> > On Monday 30 October 2017 10:33:55 nik mur wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Recently I upgraded my nginx to 1.12 version from 1.10 branch.
> > >
> > > The build from source went through without any issues, but while
> starting
> > > Nginx I am receiving this error:
> > >
> > > *>>[emerg] 342#342: unknown directive "gzip" in
> > > /usr/local/apps/nginx/etc/conf.d/gzip.conf:2*
> > >
> > [..]
> >
> > You should check your full configuration. It's unclear where this "gzip"
> > directive is included.
> >
> > Please note, there's no such directive in mail and stream modules.
>
> The message suggests that the directive is indeed unknown, not
> just used in a wrong context. When a directive is used in a wrong
> context, the message would be "is not allowed here" instead.
>
> In this particular case I would recommend to compile without any
> 3rd party modules, likely one of the 3rd party modules screwed up
> building due to incorrect hacks used in config script.
>
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