How do setup gzip & leverage browser caching properly

You could use the following article here: http://linux-notes.org/vklyuchit-szhatie-gzip-i-ke-shirovanie-v-nginx-i-apache/

Can someone tell me where this goes in nginx.conf? I’m having trouble getting this to work.

Replacing <pre>location ~* .(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)(?ver=[0-9.]+)?$ { </pre> with <pre>location ~* .(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ { </pre> would probably be a better option because you surely don’t want ALL CSS files cached for a year in case you want to make changes without a way to force the browser to reload the file (which would be adding a version string).

you just need to add this to your nginx vhost block: <br> <br>location ~* .(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)(?ver=[0-9.]+)?$ { <br> expires 1y; <br>} <br> <br>or add this for more caching to other things you have on your site: <br> <br>location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|svg|js|css|mp3|ogg|mpeg|avi|zip|gz|bz2?| <br>rar|swf)$ { <br> expires 7d; <br> }

Thank you! Do you know the steps required to leverage caching?

you can make sure Nginx.conf has the following: <br> <br> gzip on; <br> gzip_vary on; <br> gzip_disable “MSIE [1-6].”; <br> gzip_proxied any; <br> gzip_http_version 1.1; <br> gzip_min_length 0; <br> gzip_comp_level 4; <br> gzip_buffers 16 8k; <br> <br>and you can use x-cache to cache php mainly… <br> <br>you can use some nginx modules to compress or combine css and js files. <br> <br>you can compress images as well through many ways to speed up the site load time