Question

I have a gzip-compressed style and scripts in files:

/scripts.js.gz
/styles.css.gz

The problem is that it does not serve the correct mime-type and browser does not recognize, that the files are compressed css or js (browser recognize the type as application/octet-stream, where it should be text/css or so).

I tried adding the following to mime.type of nginx, but with no effect. I suppose, it does not recognize, that the file is compressed.

types {
    text/css                                css.gz;
    application/x-javascript                js.gz;
}

When trying to access the files, the browser handle the files as files to download and not to present.

Answer 1

Do not change the mime types and use the Gzip Static Module to handle this.

When this is active, Nginx will try to serve “file.ext.gz” first and then try “file.ext”, if not found, for all requests within the context (location etc) where it is active.