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Hristo Kolev
Asked: 2019-12-29 01:23:24 +0800 CST

Can I use brotli compression with nginx without compiling anything?

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I want to use brotli compression with nginx on Ubuntu 16.04.

I don't want to install all of the development and build packages or compile anything on our production severs.

Can it be done? Is there some package that can be installed?

nginx

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Since brotli is part of Nginx Plus subscription, there isn't a way to avoid compiling nginx yourself.

    I use Debian myself, and my approach is the following:

    1. Add nginx.org Debian repository to my development machine.
    2. apt-get source nginx to download the sources
    3. Add brotli and other customisations
    4. Use dpkg-buildpackage to build a .deb package.
    5. Deploy the .deb package on production servers.

    You don't need to use nginx.org repository, you can also do this with the OS own repository.

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  2. As per nginx manual you need to install nginx-plus-module-brotli package:

    apt-get install nginx-plus-module-brotli

    and in nginx.conf you need to add those lines:

    load_module modules/ngx_http_brotli_filter_module.so;
load_module modules/ngx_http_brotli_static_module.so;

    Additionally you need to config this module. For example:

    brotli on;
brotli_comp_level 1;
brotli_types text/plain text/css;

    Check out all the directives you can use in config.

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