How to install and enable brotli compression on LEMP on ubuntu 18.04

Posted on May 1, 2019

Hello fellows,

I need some help. I have enabled gzip compression but I also want to enable brotli compression on my server. I followed many articles available on google but none of them helped me to install and enable brotli.

I also don’t trust another source. I followed all the articled by the digital ocean to install my LEMP stack and WordPress. But I think there is no tutorial available for brotli. I also checked official doc of Nginx but there is not enough information. I followed their doc to install brotli but that did not work for me.

Please if anyone here can tell me the best and clean method to enable brotli. I will appreciate that.

Thanks & Regards, Brajmohan Kumar

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Mouhsen Ibrahim

May 1, 2019

@techiebraj

To install brotli you need to execute these commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y build-essential gcc make bc sed autoconf automake libtool git apt-transport-https tree
git clone https://github.com/google/brotli.git
cd brotli
sudo cp ~/brotli/docs/brotli.1 /usr/share/man/man1 && sudo gzip /usr/share/man/man1/brotli.1
./bootstrap
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

After that check version with this command brotli --version

Hope this helps