August 20, 2015

Enable Compression On Plesk With Nginx

To enable compression on a Plesk server with Nginx handling static content, had to add the following to .htaccess:

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
  <filesMatch "\.(js|css|html|php)$">
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
  </filesMatch>
</IfModule>

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

</filesMatch>

</IfModule>

This configuration is explained here: https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/developer-corner/apache-web-server/data-compression-using-the-mod-deflate-module

And then in Plesk under:

Subscriptions -> acme.com -> Websites & Domains -> Web Server Settings -> Additional nginx directives

added the following:

# enable gzip compression
gzip on;
gzip_min_length  1100;
gzip_buffers  4 32k;
gzip_types    text/plain application/javascript application/x-javascript text/xml text/css;
gzip_vary on;
# end gzip configuration

# enable gzip compression

gzip on;

gzip_min_length 1100;

gzip_buffers 4 32k;

gzip_types text/plain application/javascript application/x-javascript text/xml text/css;

gzip_vary on;

# end gzip configuration

The Nginx configuration is explained here: http://www.nginxtips.com/how-to-configure-nginx-gzip-compression/

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2 Comments

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nickdavison says:

February 20, 2016 at 2:37 pm

Thanks for that info, didn’t realize an Nginx directive was needed to enable.

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Esin Dorsan says:

June 20, 2017 at 8:45 pm

Thanks a lot !

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