Do not disable gzip compression for nginx completely

[benediktg]

see also issue #325

[benediktg]

Maybe somebody could remove irrelevant MIME types from the gzip_types directive?

[MorrisJobke]

I just tried this with the latest master and I could not find a request where this is valid, because we send an etag with every request somehow. So the gzip was never enabled. On the other side we enabled gzip for the static assets in the server itself.

I think this can be closed then.

[MorrisJobke]

On the other side we enabled gzip for the static assets in the server itself.

See nextcloud/server#4070

[benediktg]

Enabling gzip saves about 70 % data transfer and reduces the loading time by about 20 %:

(source)

[MorrisJobke]

With current master?

[MorrisJobke]

With current master?

Because we do the GZIP compression in master already. ;)

[benediktg]

With current master?

With 11.0.3

[MorrisJobke]

With 11.0.3

There you have it ;)

[MorrisJobke]

With 11.0.3

Just upgrade to the 12 beta 2 😉

[benediktg]

Here is the comparison with NC 12 beta 2:

(source)

[ghost]

I just performed some tests on Nextcloud 11.0.3 and as well on Nextcloud 12b2 ... Nextclouds performance significantly increased with NGINX 1.13 and ngx_cache_purge enabled. Thanks!!!

[MorrisJobke]

Nextclouds performance significantly increased with NGINX 1.13 and ngx_cache_purge enabled. Thanks!!!

Could you show what you enabled so we can document it?

[ghost]

don't get me wrong but all i configured is shown at https://www.c-rieger.de/nextcloud-installation-guide/
regarding gzip i first tried your recommendations (gzip off) and had iterations from

gzip on;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_types application/javascript application/x-javascript text/javascript text/xml text/css;

to

gzip on;
gzip_min_length 1024;
gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private auth;
gzip_types text/plain text/css text/xml text/javascript application/x-javascript application/json application/xml;
gzip_disable msie6;

to finally yours:

gzip on;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_comp_level 4;
gzip_min_length 256;
gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private no_last_modified no_etag auth;
gzip_types application/atom+xml application/javascript application/json application/ld+json application/manifest+json application/rss+xml application/vnd.geo+json application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/x-font-ttf application/x-web-app-manifest+json application/xhtml+xml application/xml font/opentype image/bmp image/svg+xml image/x-icon text/cache-manifest text/css text/plain text/vcard text/vnd.rim.location.xloc text/vtt text/x-component text/x-cross-domain-policy;

conclusion:
modifications to nginx, php, mysql and redis will result in a significant performance boost for Nextcloud, as well for uploads as for downloads.

[MorrisJobke]

don't get me wrong but all i configured is shown at https://www.c-rieger.de/nextcloud-installation-guide/

Sorry :/ Didn't reminded that.

[MorrisJobke]

@josh4trunks Any opinions on this? Looks good from my side.

[MorrisJobke]

@benediktg Could you rebase this?

@LukasReschke Are you up to set this also up for apache? I guess it makes sense to gzip the static assets.

[josh4trunks]

I personally have my Nextcloud instance behind a Varnish cache server that does all the gzipping, and gzip is disabled for Nginx. There I gzip all "(text|application)/"

Is it posible to have gzip_types be something like application/* text/*? Otherwise this is probably fine, but I'll leave it to others to test.

###EDIT###
https://serverfault.com/questions/731018/nginx-gzip-text-seems-not-to-compress-text-javascript
I guess nginx isn't as regexy about this than varnish. so the huge block of gzip_types is the best option here I guess.

[benediktg]

@MorrisJobke Of course, I will do it soon.

[benediktg]

Do you think it would make sense to add

gzip_vary on;

? (i.e. add the Vary: Accept-Encoding header)

[MorrisJobke]

Do you think it would make sense to add

Yep - seems that it allows to make this compatible with clients that don't support gzip.

[MorrisJobke]

While working on this: Could you also add the same change to the subdir configuration below in the same file?

[MorrisJobke]

@josh4trunks Forgot to ask you: Any opinion on this? Works here fine and seems to make sense from my point of view.

[MorrisJobke]

I added it to the release notes: f6497cf

[josh4trunks]

gzip_vary looks good to me. As I said before, I do not personally use gzip with Nginx, I let an upstream Varnish Cache proxy do that for me so I have not dived deep into the various gzip options Nginx has.