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 _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx